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American Sleep Medicine patients notified of stolen hard drive

Posted on April 16, 2015 by Dissent

American Sleep Medicine of San Diego, which describes itself as conducting more than 4,000 sleep studies each year, is notifying an undisclosed number of patients that some of their personal information was on an external hard drive stolen from a locked server room. The theft was discovered on March 3rd and reported to the San Diego Police Department….

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Curious employee breached privacy of 39 patients, Island Health authority admits

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Dissent

Canadian Press reports: The health authority on Vancouver Island says an employee who had nothing to do with the care of 39 patients accessed their health records out of curiosity about friends or neighbours. Suzanne Germain, of Island Health, said an investigation began last November after allegations that a longtime worker was looking at confidential…

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There’s TOO MANY data-leaking healthcare firms, growls Symantec

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Dissent

Darren Pauli reports: Security software company Symantec is being drenched in calls from breached health organisations that have lost devices or suffered an information security snafu. Some 80 per cent of the calls its incident response team has received since December are from healthcare firms, topping the charts for the number of breach incidents for 2014 for…

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Texas Doctor Sentenced to Prison for Health Care Fraud Scheme

Posted on April 14, 2015 by Dissent

If you were ever a patient at one of these hospitals, you might want to get your medical records and check them for accuracy. Also check your Explanation of Benefits from your insurer to make sure that your records accurately reflect services you received and for what. Previous coverage of this case can be found…

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CA: Stanislaus Surgical Hospital discloses breach

Posted on April 14, 2015 by Dissent

I am never happy when a breach notification letter tells you there’s been an “incident,” but they don’t actually tell you what the incident was. Today’s example: a breach notification from Stanislaus Surgical Hospital in Modesto, California. It might have been a hack from their description, but then again, could it be that someone stole patient…

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CA: Hundreds Of Dental Records Found In Vacant Building

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Dissent

Christine O’Donnell reports that hundreds of dental records with patients’ addresses, insurance information, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and drivers license numbers were found in what appears to be a vacant building in Orange. Of concern, the building has broken windows and homeless people have been observed going in and out of it for a while…

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