Loni Blandford reports about yet another discovery of medical records from a defunct practice or entity just dumped without shredding: From credit cards applications to patient’s name, addresses and even social security numbers. All that information was just sitting next to a dumpster in a parking lot near Buffalo Drive and Washington Avenue. […] There…
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Her case shows why healthcare privacy laws exist
Michael Hiltzik writes: Of all the personal information that you might want to keep private, your medical records are the most important. That’s why federal and state laws carry stiff penalties, up to and including jail time, for healthcare providers who let such data loose into the wild. So you should be aghast at how…
ALCU sues state of Alaska, seeks the return of medical records seized from Ketchikan clinic
With all of the Medicare and Medicaid fraud prosecutions that have gone on and are going on around the country, have you ever thought about whether your patient records with sensitive information are winding up in the hands of non-medical personnel or how many people might have access to them? Shannon Haugland reports that the…
Pharmacy customers complain of privacy violations, delays
Jim Doyle reports: Walgreens’ recent acquisition and immediate closure of three independent community pharmacies in the St. Louis area has raised questions about the privacy of customers’ prescription records. Some former customers of the three sold pharmacies — the Williams Pharmacy in University City, the Clarkson Square Pharmacy in Chesterfield and Prescription Plus in the…
The six worst data breaches of 2011
If you’re looking for the biggest breaches of the year in terms of numbers affected, you can find them over on DataLossDB.org or in others’ reviews. Certainly there were some really big breaches this year, but those were not necessarily the worst, in my opinion. So here’s my short list of the year’s worst breaches…
IL: Woman sentenced to four years for aggravated identity theft
The Rock River Times reports: Elizabeth Schmidtke, 27, pled guilty to aggravated identity theft and was sentenced to four years in the Illinois Department of Corrections Dec. 16. In May 2011, City of Rockford detectives began an investigation into photocopied checks that were located in another state but belonged to patients at a local medical…