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ICO announces two new undertakings

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Dissent

The Information Commissioner’s Office announced two undertakings that were issued. Northern Health and Social Care Trust 13 August 2013 An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Northern Health & Social Care Trust. This follows a number of security incidents which led to a formal investigation into the Trust’s…

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Walgreens Sued for Sharing Patient’s Private Medical Info

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Dissent

Josh Crank provides additional coverage on a case previously mentioned on this blog: A jury ordered Walgreen Co. to pay $1.44 million to an Indiana woman after one of its pharmacists illegally accessed and shared her medical information. But according to conventional legal wisdom, that lawsuit should never have made it to trial. The suit…

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Former employee of Resources for Human Development sentenced for stealing mental health residents' information for tax refund fraud scheme

Posted on August 11, 2013 by Dissent

Another update on a breach previously mentioned on this blog. From a July 24 press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland: U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Derrick Elrod, age 35, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to three years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for bank fraud…

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Paper records account for most Veterans Affairs data breaches

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Dissent

Frank Konkel reports: The leading cause of data breaches at the Department of Veterans Affairs continues to be paper-based records, according to VA Acting Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology Stephen Warren. Warren briefed reporters Aug. 8 on the data breach reports his agency submitted to Congress for April, May and June, and stated that…

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Two former Sentara workers charged with identity theft

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Dissent

Scott Daugherty reports that two former Sentara Healthcare nurse’s aides have been indicted on charges of stealing the identities of at least a dozen patients as part of a tax refund fraud scheme. Several of the victims were patients at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital and all were reportedly patients of Sentara medical facilities in…

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Firewall error by M2ComSys exposed 32,000 patients' information (Update 1)

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Dissent

A vendor’s firewall error has resulted in approximately 32,000 patients in 48 states being notified that some of their protected health information was exposed on the Internet.  The vendor was medical transcription service M2ComSys, contracted by Cogent Healthcare. The latter provides physicians called hospitalists to hospitals operated by Genesis Health Systems. Neither Genesis Health Systems…

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