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State Farm and Nationwide fail to convince WV Supreme Court to let them retain – and share – medical records obtained under protective orders

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Dissent

Here’s another recent and interesting privacy case in West Virginia discussed by Bordas & Bordas, who have just been added to my bookmarks: In September, they wrote: Insurance companies routinely gather medical records in the course of taking applications and processing claims. What do you think they do with this private healthcare information? The answer…

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'America may have access to Dutch digital patient records'

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Dissent

A scary headline if you’re Dutch, I bet. DutchNews.nl reports: The American authorities may have access to information stored in the new Dutch digital patient record system because it is being built by a US firm, Nos television reports. The system is being developed for the Dutch government by CSC, an American company with operations in the…

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Guidance Regarding Methods for De-identification of Protected Health Information in Accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Dissent

Yesterday, OCR released the guidance on de-identification  of PHI: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/coveredentities/De-identification/hhs_deid_guidance.pdf Now I just need to find time to read it…

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Follow-up on the Gulf Coast Health Care Services breach

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Dissent

Back on November 10, I noted that HHS’s breach tool had added an entry for Gulf Coast Health Care Services: Gulf Coast Health Care Services  in Florida suffered a network compromise on August 17 that reportedly affected 13,000 patients. The incident was reported to HHS as “Theft, UnauthorizedAccess/Disclosure, Hacking/IT Incident”,Network Server. I commented at the…

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Answer to yesterday’s trivia question

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Dissent

The three countries that  have reported breaches that affected their entire population (or almost the entire population) are Belize, Israel, and Greece.

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Today’s trivia question

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Dissent

Let’s see how long you’ve been reading DataBreaches.net. Three countries have experienced breaches involving their entire population or almost their entire population. Can you name them? I’ll post the answer tomorrow.

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