There are e-mail gaffes, and then there are e-mail gaffes that can really be embarrassing. Ben Wright reports: A Muscogee County sheriff’s deputy who emailed personal information of female co-workers using bullet proof vests has been identified. Cpl. Keith Hamilton, the quartermaster in charge of supplies for the Sheriff’s Office, was given a written reprimand…
CT health insurance database aims at cost transparency, despite privacy concerns
Arielle Levin Becker reports on privacy concerns about Connecticut’s development of an all-payers claim database: […] But Dr. Susan Israel, who said she had been following patients’ “privacy rights, or lack thereof,” said it was important to know who would be handling patient data that hadn’t been de-identified. “The public really needs to understand, first…
Desperately seeking justification to oppose Obamacare, some members of GOP demonstrate ignorance of HIPAA
Do they really think we’re stupid? Yesterday, I noted Rep. Joe Barton’s ridiculous questioning concerning whether Healthcare.gov violates HIPAA. Rep. Barton was not the only member of the GOP trying to use scare tactics about HIPAA and the site, however. Watch this exchange between CNN’s Carol Costello and Rep. Marsha Blackburn: Look, folks, there…
Yusen Logistics + unencrypted laptop + unattended car = #databreach
From a letter sent by Yusen Logistics (Americas) to its current and former employees: On the morning of September 24, 2013, we learned that a password-protected, unencrypted laptop computer issued to a YLA employee was stolen from the employee’s vehicle the night before. The incident was reported to the police and we immediately began a…
Online security breach at SAH disgruntles many job seekers
Darren Taylor reports: A SooToday.com reader has informed us that he has been the target of unsolicited emails, texts and telemarketing calls, and claims this is the result of a mishap involving the Sault Area Hospital (SAH) website’s online job application system. The reader was notified by SAH in a letter dated October 24, 2013…
Former Mount Sinai Medical Center employee convicted in patient ID theft for tax refund fraud scheme
Oliver Gayle of Miami has been convicted in an tax refund scheme involving the theft of patient information from Mount Sinai Medical Center. Gayle, who was employed as a temp, had a previous felony conviction on RICO/racketeering charges prior to his employment at the medical center. The South Florida Business Journal asked the medical center how he…