Karen Caffarini reports: Sending a letter to patients to notify them of a data breach in your office is more than just a nice thing to do — it’s becoming something you must do. The recently passed stimulus legislation — the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 — includes language that requires any physician…
Category: Health Data
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: An employee of Washington Mutual Bank in Joliet was arrested and charged with organizing a financial crimes enterprise, conspiring to commit financial crimes, participating in a continuing financial crimes enterprise, theft and four counts of financial identity theft. More. Washoe County sheriff’s deputies have arrested David Michael Baker in Reno on…
UK: List of health service security blunders exposed
Continuing what appears to be an increasing trend in the UK media to use freedom of information requests to obtain breach reports, Echo found that there had been 34 incidents involving patient data being lost or mislaid by health service staff in Gloucestershire since December 2007. The paper notes that the same request was sent…
Complimentary Webinar: HIPAA Federal Breach Notification in Stimulus Legislation (ARRA)
Note: I have no affiliation with Debix. Tuesday March 24th, 9am PST, 11am CST, Noon EST Lisa Sotto, a Partner with Hunton & Williams LLP, will review the new federal data breach legislation that was signed into law on February 17th (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act). Lisa will discuss the requirements of the…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: A string of identity thefts spanning seven states has resulted in the arrest of two suspects in Wisconsin. More. As a follow-up to a story reported previously, Scottsdale police arrested nine people who allegedly ran an ID theft ring that involved stealing customer data from local businesses including the Henry Brown…
Florida couple fed up over medical fax flap
Laura Kadechka reports on a Tampa couple who have been received misdirected faxes containing pharmacy and medical information for over two years, despite their having contacted the pharmacies and medical clinics to tell them of the error. The doctor who had had their phone number had changed it two years ago. Not wholly surprising, when…