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AU: Patients’ privacy put under threat

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Dissent

Anna Caldwell reports: The private details of Queensland Health patients are at risk of being lost or stolen and there are inadequate plans to deal with a major security breach. But the troubled department is racing to implement computerised medical records. The Auditor-General’s report into information systems governance and control has identified gaps in protocol…

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FBI Investigating Possible DSHS Hacker

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Dissent

Emily Ramshaw reports: The FBI is investigating whether a hacker broke into the state’s confidential cancer registry, possibly holding personal information and medical records hostage. Health and Human Services Commissioner Tom Suehs says state health officials notified his office in early May that a hacker was holding the Texas Cancer Registry hostage and demanding a…

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WellPoint: 940 customers' records may have been accessed

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Dissent

Reuters reports on the WellPoint breach that’s in the news this week: […] The company believes that the security glitch was exploited to access information on 940 insurance applications. Separately, unauthorized viewers accessed spreadsheets that “in rare cases” contained Social Security numbers, Sanders said. WellPoint is doing forensic work to identify the applicants whose data…

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CA: Dominican Hospital worker loses job over privacy breach

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Dissent

Jondi Gumz reports: Dominican Hospital has dismissed an employee who accessed medical records for 200 patients without authorization. The unauthorized access was discovered May 25, according to Mike Lee, Dominican Hospital spokesman, noting the information included patients’ full name, account number, insurance carrier and diagnosis or reason for hospitalization. “Based on our investigation and an…

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Another theft of data from Kentuckiana hospital causing concern

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Dissent

Eric Flack reports: There has been another data breach at a Louisville hospital owned by Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s Healthcare. Jewish Hospital is still reeling from the disappearance of a flash drive from Our Lady of Peace. While this data breach is much smaller, there is still cause for concern. On April 21, patients…

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Aetna recovers personal information of N.J. policy holders thought to have been discarded

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Dissent

Note: this is a follow-up to a breach previously described here Susan K. Livio reports: HARTFORD, Ct. — Aetna is alerting nearly 5,000 policy holders in New Jersey and Pennsylvania that it recovered a filing cabinet containing social security numbers and other personal information that it had thrown away when it moved out of an…

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