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TX: Ex-Hospital Employee Blamed in Security Breach

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Dissent

John Perera reports: A hospital in northwest Harris County is warning 741 patients that their personal health information was compromised by a former employee. Several patients at IntraCare North Hospital have reported false income tax returns were filed using their personal information, hospital spokesman John Redd said. That ex-employee was an intake coordinator at the…

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Maine VA hospital launches investigation after patient records dumped unshredded into Dumpster

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Dissent

Stephen Betts reports: Patient records were dumped unshredded into a Dumpster last month at the Maine VA Medical Center but a spokesman said the documents never left the campus grounds and that no personal identifying information was disclosed. A bag containing a number of documents from the prosthetics section of the medical center was discovered…

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Ca: First report issued on breach of new health info act

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Dissent

CBC News reports: Newfoundland and Labrador’s privacy commissioner says a registered massage therapist breached the Personal Health Information Act by failing to properly safeguard a patient’s file. Commissioner Ed Ring says the therapist lost a file containing the personal health information of the complainant, a patient. The commissioner recommended that the massage therapist, and other…

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Security breach: Twice victimized

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Dissent

Eleanor Sundwall has a well-written commentary about the Utah Dept. of Health breach that I hope people read as she articulates how entities respond to a breach may leave the victims of a breach feeling even more victimized. You can read her commentary on the Salt Lake Tribune. Eleanor’s story raises another issue, however. She…

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Suit hits Pentagon over huge 2011 data breach

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Dissent

Bryan Bender has a piece in The Boston Globe about the TRICARE/SAIC breach last December. The story doesn’t shed any new light on the breach, and I am still waiting for Rep. Ed Markey to release the response he got from TRICARE to a letter he had sent them (his staff assures me he will…

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Prime hospital cited for patient confidentiality violation

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Dissent

Lance Williams reports on a case previously covered on this blog: A Prime Healthcare Services hospital in Redding broke state law when it publicized a patient’s confidential medical files in an effort to discredit a California Watch news report, state regulators say. The state Department of Public Health on Tuesday issued five “deficiencies” against Shasta…

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