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Walgreens privacy breach puts info in hands of scary drug addict, suit claims

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Dissent

Aimee Green reports: A man is suing the nation’s largest drug-store chain for $10,000 — claiming that staff at a Gresham Walgreens pharmacy inadvertently shared a copy of his oxycodone prescription with a drug addict, who then tracked him down and demanded that he hand over his pills. The lawsuit details a frightening face-to-face encounter outside…

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Indiana State Medical Association discloses theft of backup drives with 39,090 members’ health insurance information

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Dissent

A statement from ISMA: The Indiana State Medical Association (ISMA) experienced the theft of two archive backup hard drives on Feb. 13, 2015. The equipment stored the ISMA group health and life insurance databases, which contained information on 39,090 insureds. This was a random criminal act that occurred while an ISMA employee was transporting the…

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Valley Community Healthcare notifies patients after laptop with their information was stolen

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Dissent

Valley Community Healthcare in California is notifying some patients who underwent cardiogram testing. In a letter dated March  9, Paul Wilson, President/CEO and Roger A. Meeks, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, informed patients: On February 24, 2015 we discovered that a laptop computer attached to the Electrocardiogram (EKG) machine in the General Medicine department was missing. The…

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Sonoma County social worker sued for snooping in applicant’s files

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Dissent

Sometimes employees snoop in healthcare or government databases just out of curiosity. Other times, they snoop to obtain information to misuse. That misuse could involve financial fraud such as tax refund fraud, or it could involve tormenting your neighbor, according to a lawsuit in Santa Rosa, California. Paul Payne of the Press Democrat reported on a case…

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Tort of intrusion upon seclusion and breaches of personal health information: the Court of Appeal decision in Hopkins v. Kay

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Dissent

Analysis of  Hopkins v. Kay,  this by Bradley J. Freedman, Barry Glaspell and Patrick Hawkins of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP: …  In Hopkins v. Kay, a patient of a hospital, on her own behalf and that of other patients in the “class” proposed to be certified by the court, alleged that her hospital records had been accessed by…

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NC: Nurse, pastor’s wife pleads guilty to ID theft

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Dissent

Diane Turbyfill reports: A Belmont woman used her position as a nurse and pastor’s wife to defraud two elderly people. Deborah Costner Taylor pleaded guilty in court Friday to identity theft and obtaining property by false pretense. […] She is married to the pastor of East Belmont Baptist Church and worked at CaroMont Regional Medical…

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