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Ca: Vets ombudsman asks for privacy probe after personal information accessed

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Dissent

Murray Brewster reports: Canada’s Veteran’s ombudsman says he’s asking the country’s privacy watchdog to investigate why his Veterans Affairs file was access hundreds of times. Pat Stogran says he believes private information in those records may have been inappropriately used, much like what happened to another outspoken critic of the department. Sean Bruyea, who prior…

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Update: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center breach

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Dissent

Anemona Hartocollis of the New York Times answers one of the questions I had about the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center breach. Citing a hospital spokesperson, she writes: The mistake was found in early July, after a relative of a patient found information from that patient on the Internet and told the hospital about it. The…

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Information for Thousands of Columbia University Medical Center Patients on Internet (updated)

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Dissent

MyFoxNY reports: Personal information — including names and some clinical data — of thousands of patients at Columbia University Medical Center ended up freely visible on the Internet, Columbia and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital have confirmed. The information on 6,800 patients was “inadvertently” placed on a server, hospital officials reported. But whose server? Were the data posted to one of…

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Update on Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center breach allegations

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Dissent

Last week I posted links to a controversy as to whether Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Arkansas had actually experienced a privacy breach or not.  The story just gets weirder and weirder.  The medical center released the following press release, available on FierceHealthcare, but not, apparently on their web site or on the site…

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Lessons From A Security Breach

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Dissent

Ed Sperling writes: In late July Kern Medical Center’s information system came to a grinding halt. The hospital believed it had the standard security systems in place to protect its medical records. But for 16 long days that stretched into August, the hospital struggled to get its systems operational and isolate the problem from its…

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Ie: Computer Containing Patient Data Stolen From Ennis Hospital

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Dissent

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has confirmed that a computer containing patient information has been stolen during a break-in at Ennis General Hospital. Gardaí, the HSE and the Data Protection Commissioner are investigating the theft which occurred at Clare’s county hospital last week. […] The HSE has launched it’s own investigation into the matter however…

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