Papers that contained protected health information on two patients from a Russellville hospital was found along a Little Rock interstate. A call into Today’s THV Wednesday morning launches an investigation within St. Mary’s Medical Center in Russellville, as to how two of their patients personal records reportedly ended up on I-30 Little Rock more than…
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Groups urge Congress to exempt them from data breach bill
Eric Chabrow reports: Witnesses testifying Wednesday on a data breach bill called on senators to exempt industries from notifying individuals whose personal information is exposed if other laws require such alerts. Melissa Bianchi, a lawyer representing the American Hospital Association, told the Senate Commerce, Science and Technology Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Insurance Subcommittee, that…
Data Breach Investigation | Constitutionality | Arbitrary, Capricious?
Benjamin Wright is an attorney who teaches e-discovery, data security and cyber investigations law at the SANS Institute. In commenting on the recent matter of Lucile Salter Packard Hospital being fined for not notifying patients within 5 days of confirming that PHI were on a stolen computer, Wright states: Yet I will say that it…
UK: IT manager at Hull PCT pleads guilty in snooping charges
As a follow-up to a case reported on this blog previously: Dale Trever, 22, a data quality manager at Hull Primary Care Trust, has pleaded guilty to snooping through patients’ medical records over 400 times. Most of them were the records of family members, friends, and colleagues. Anh Nguyen reports in Computerworld (UK): At Hull…
Update/Pointer: East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust hospital identified
Lister Hospital was the hospital involved in the recent East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust incident where a junior doctor left a flash drive with unencrypted patient information on a train. More here.
Data Breaches – Who Really Loses
Rafal Los blogs on Digital Soapbox – Down the Security Rabbit Hole! about who really pays the fines when a hospital is fined as a result of a data breach: When information is lost, the first thought often is to fine, fine, and fine again these institutions we find to be negligent in either securing their patient’s…