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Fox47 reports: Unity Health Insurance said Thursday morning that a missing hard drive could compromise patient information for more than 40,000 members. The health insurance group said the portable computer hard drive was reported missing by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy on Dec. 12. Unity identified 41,437 members who may have been affected…

They served their country but now the card that’s supposed to help veterans may be putting them at risk for identity theft and it’s a problem the Department of Veteran Affairs has known about for at least two years. When the VA first issued new medical cards in 2004, they claimed the cards protected the…

In a post on an insider breach for tax refund fraud, this site incorrectly questioned whether Apex Laboratory had ever notified patients of the breach. They did notify patients in September 2012, and PHIprivacy.net apologizes for any suggestion that they may not have.

Bruce Baer Arnold and Wendy Bonython write: Are the UK and Israeli health systems heading for a privacy trainwreck? Will Australian policymakers take us down the same track by selling bulk health data? Data contained in health records can be benign, even trivial. However it can also be intimate, important and ineradicable. Add in data…

Complete Medical Homecare didn’t encrypt emails sent to trusted business partners like All American Medical Supplies. That failure to encrypt, combined with human error, resulted in a regrettable privacy breach. On December 27, CMH discovered that materials with patients’ names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and certain medical diagnoses had been transmitted to…

Alexis Krell reports: A South Sound doctor who visits patients at local nursing homes said Monday his laptop computer with personal information of about 900 patients he’s seen for the past three years was stolen from his vehicle. Dr. Ronald Schubert, whose practice is based in Federal Way, said he saw the patients between January…