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Don't tell me about "lessons learned" when breaches are frequent and measured in the hundreds of thousands at a time

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Dissent

In the last month or so, we’ve seen  breaches of healthcare records where each breach is measured in the hundreds of thousands.  There was the Utah Dept of Health breach, the South Carolina Dept. of Health and Human Services breach, and the Emory Healthcare System breach.  But it’s not just here that huge breaches involving…

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OR: Stolen computer jeopardizes medical records

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Dissent

Ty Steele of KVAL in Oregon reports: Patients of a Eugene medical clinic are worried about protecting their identities after a security breach. Nancy Shepherd of Cottage Grove said her parents, both of whom are in their late 70s, received a troubling notice from the office of Dr. Rex Smith, a podiatrist. “Important security and…

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California's breach page increases our awareness of breaches

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Dissent

Now that California is also posting breach reports online, I’m finding out about breaches in the healthcare sector that I’ve not seen in the news or on HHS’s breach tool. As one example, Perry Dental sent notification letters about a burglary that occurred February 16: We are contacting you about a recent burglary in our…

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Over 200,000 confidential Medicaid records improperly acquired

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Dissent

No, it’s not Utah, but I can understand why you’d think that.  The headline is referring to a totally different Medicaid breach – this one in South Carolina.  Jeffrey Collins of Associated Press reports: The agency that runs South Carolina’s Medicaid program says an employee improperly transferred information about more than 228,000 people to a…

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Emory Healthcare notifies individuals regarding missing data

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Dissent

Emory Healthcare has determined that 10 backup discs containing information on surgical patients treated between September 1990 and April 2007 are missing from a storage location at Emory University Hospital. As soon as it was discovered that the discs were missing, an extensive search and investigation was initiated and is continuing. It is important to…

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UK: Briefcase stolen from social worker's home contained details of child protection cases

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Dissent

Leicestershire County Council have breached the Data Protection Act (DPA), following the theft of a briefcase containing sensitive personal data from a social worker’s home, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The ICO was informed by the Council in May 2011 that a briefcase, containing documents to be used for initiating court proceedings, had…

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