Sherry Jacobson reports: A laptop computer that may have contained the names, birthdates and Social Security numbers of 9,300 employees of Parkland Memorial Hospital was stolen last week, hospital officials acknowledged Monday. The laptop, valued at $1,862 and stolen Feb. 3, contained no information related to Parkland patients, the officials stressed. And while it was…
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Consumer Advocate’s View of HIT in Stimulus Bill
Josh Seidman reports: The following is a guest post from Eva Powell, MSW, CPHQ, Diretor, HIT Project, National Partnership for Women & Families. In light of all the discussion about the Economic Recovery Plan and the privacy provisions in the HIT Title, I thought it might be helpful to provide a consumer advocate’s view. The…
Google, IBM team to take health records from PDA to e-health database
Sharon Gaudin reports: Google Inc., IBM and the Continua Health Alliance this week unveiled jointly developed software designed to stream patient information from a doctor’s mobile device to online data stores. The two tech giants worked with the Beaverton, Ore.-based health care provider to extend the value of Google‘s Google Health service and other online…
CA: Personal Info On 1,000s Of Kaiser Employees Stolen
CBS reports: Thousands of northern California Kaiser employees are being notified that their personal information including social security numbers was stolen from the company. Kaiser has set-up a Employee Security Support Line for the 29,500 employees whose information was stolen to handle the situation. A recorded message on the line says that the stolen information…
CO: Hospital worker says she stole 20 identities a week
In today’s installment of what has become a bit of a soap opera of a breach, Deborah Sherman reports: In an exclusive interview with 9Wants to Know, the woman facing charges for stealing patient records from St. Anthony Central Hospital says she might have helped to steal many more identities than previously thought. Dawn Philbin,…
UK: Information Commissioner hits another NHS Trust after data breaches
Siobhan Chapman reports: An NHS trust has been hit by enforcement action by the Information Commissioner’s Office following the theft of two laptops containing patient data. Brent Teaching Primary Care Trust was found to have breached data protection laws, after two laptops were stolen containing the personal information of 389 patients. The laptops were stored…