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UK: Medical notes are found in Bournemouth street

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Dissent

Stephen Bailey reports that stolen records with children’s sensitive information were found blowing around the road: “It had information about their jobs, when their nappies need changing, names of people looking after them. The records had reportedly been stolen: A lady, who declined to give her surname, phoned to say the documents were taken from…

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OHSU says data about some patients and employees stolen in a home burglary

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Dissent

Oregon Health & Science University Hospital officials have posted a notice on their web site. While most of the notice concerns patient information, it appears that almost 200 employees had their Social Security Numbers on the stolen USB drive. OHSU has set up a toll free number to respond to patient questions. Information stored on…

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Hartford Hospital and VNA Healthcare notify patients after laptop stolen from vendor employee's home

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Dissent

Christine Dempsey reports: An [sic] laptop computer stolen from a business associated with Hartford Hospital and its sister home-health care group contains personal information of nearly 10,000 patients, the hospital said Monday. Officials from the hospital and VNA HealthCare learned on June 26 that the laptop had been stolen from the home of an employee of Greenplum,…

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Charges won't be pursued in Eastern Health privacy breach

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Dissent

CBC News reports: Eastern Health will not pursue criminal charges against employees who breached the authority’s strict privacy rules, including those who have already lost their jobs. Five workers were dismissed for looking at the medical records of patients they weren’t caring for, Eastern Health revealed last week. In a statement e-mailed to CBC News,…

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Northwestern Memorial Hospital notifies hospice patients after laptops with personal and medical info stolen from office (updated)

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Dissent

Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Home Hospice in Chicago is notifying patients of a breach involving their unencrypted personal and medical information. Here is their press release, posted to their site on July 25: Statement Regarding Hospice Burglary and Patient Health Information Breach On the evening of June 11, 2012, Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Home Hospice offices at…

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Taking note that we're in the dark (updated to shine some light)

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Dissent

Aha. It’s not just yours truly complaining about breaches where no information is readily available.   One of the breaches I had cited as an example involved Upper Valley Medical Center. Citing the entry on HHS’s breach tool, I had written: Upper Valley Medical Center,OH,,”15,000?,10/01/2010-03/21/2012,Unauthorized Access/Disclosure,Other,7/3/2012,, The breach went on for over one year? There…

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