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Ca: “Dr. Disgrace” 1st to face Manitoba’s PHIA charges

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Dissent

Dean Pritchard reports: A former city doctor with a host of prior legal woes was back in Winnipeg court Friday charged with abandoning thousands of patient medical records at his shuttered medical clinic. George Korol, 62, pleaded guilty to two counts of failing to protect personal health information and was fined $5,000. Korol is the…

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Prima CARE notifying patients after binders with protected health information found in bushes

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Dissent

According to its web site, Prima CARE, P.C. is a large, multi-specialty medical group serving southeastern New England. Also according to their web site, a former employee improperly discarded binders with protected health information. A notice linked from their home page explains: Prima CARE has Recovered Documents Containing Patient Information On June 4, 2015, Prima CARE…

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Ca: Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner and Saskatoon Health Region Authority at odds over privacy breach

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Dissent

David Giles reports that Ronald Kruzeniski, Saskatchewan’s information and privacy commissioner (IPC) and the Saskatoon Health Region Authority (SHRA) are at odds over whether disciplinary action taken against a snooping employee should be disclosed. The dispute arose in the context of an employee who snooped on her own records and five others’ records without a need-to-know. In…

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New details emerge on Siouxland Pain Clinic breach (updated)

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Dissent

On August 1, I noted some media reports about a breach at the Siouxland Pain Clinic. As I mentioned, the reports raised more questions than they answered. Mike Bell of the Sioux City Journal now has a few more details: Siouxland Pain Clinic sent letters Friday to more than 13,000 patients that their medical and…

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Fresno physician notifying patients after office burglary

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Dissent

Lawyers for Olartino Dyoco, M.D., a physician in California, are notifying his patients that some of their information was on computers stolen during an office burglary. The burglary was discovered on June 2. The stored billing information included: Names and addresses,  birth dates, telephone numbers, insurance numbers, treatment codes, and billing information” The incident was reported to the Fresno…

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NZ: Investigation after doctors’ prescriptions strewn through neighbourhood

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Dissent

Jared Nicoll reports: An investigation is under way after piles of doctors’ prescriptions were found scattered through a Lower Hutt neighbourhood. Epuni St residents scraped up about 100 private prescriptions featuring patient’s names, addresses and medication from the road on Monday afternoon. They included a child’s asthma medication, and an elderly woman’s codeine prescription, issued…

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