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Ca: Veteran's privacy not violated, internal review found

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Dissent

An independent investigator who reviewed privacy violations at Veterans Affairs Canada told the Harper government in late 2010 it was appropriate to include the personal medical information of an outspoken advocate in briefing material, say internal federal documents. The central finding of the Amprax Inc. review flies in the face of the country’s privacy watchdog,…

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GA: Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital notifying home health patients their data may have been stolen for tax fraud

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Dissent

Fox31 in Georgia reports: In a press release issued by Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, they are alerting the public that patient information could be compromised. The release states that on April 9th, Phoebe Putney learned from law enforcement that a now former employee improperly accessed patient information with the intent to process fraudulent tax returns….

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GE Healthcare Admits Sending NHS Patient Data To US

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Dissent

This report by Steve McCaskill first appeared in April, but I just came across it now: Personal details of 600,000 patients were sent to the US following a mistake made by the NHS’s IT provider, GE Healthcare. GE Healthcare admitted to TechWeekEurope that the error had occurred after it had obtained more patient data than…

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South Shore Hospital to Pay $750,000 to Settle Data Breach Allegations

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Dissent

It started with an announcement in July 2010 that computer backup tapes with data on 800,000 were missing. It proceeded to confusion as to what business associates or vendors were involved and the sequence of events. But things started getting really ugly over a dispute between South Shore Hospital and the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office,…

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CA: Hundreds of patient files stolen from local lab

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Dissent

More than 700 patient files were stolen from a local laboratory. The crime was discovered Monday, after someone broke into the office of Physicians Automated Laboratory on 17th Street in downtown Bakersfield over the weekend. According to PAL, 745 patients had their information stolen: including names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and lab work. Read…

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CT: Waterford woman charged in privacy case

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Dissent

This news story by Judy Benson was published a few weeks ago, but I wanted to mention it here because we’ve seen this type of access problem before: …. In the Swanson case, records for Ruggiero-Swanson, her husband Brian and her 27-year-old son, also named Brian, were accessed by Brian Sr.’s estranged sister, according to documents…

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