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Iowa firm alerts former patients about security lapse
By Associated Press | August 12, 2013
A Davenport, Iowa, company has alerted nearly 1,200 former hospital patients about a website data security lapse that exposed their names and birth dates to identity theft.
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Eye-care provider has security breach
By Modesto (Calif.) Bee | August 08, 2013
Sacramento, Calif.-based Retinal Consultants Medical Group, which oversees eye-care and surgery facilities throughout Northern California, said some personal patient information may have been jeopardized as a result of the recent disappearance of a laptop computer.
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OHSU reports data breach of records for 3,000 patients
By Joseph Conn | July 29, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Oregon Health & Science University is notifying more than 3,000 of its patients of a breach of their personally identifiable information after their data were placed by OHSU resident physicians on a pair of Google's cloud-based information-sharing services.
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Va. students' Social Security numbers used on health plan mailer
By Joseph Conn | July 25, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
About 18,700 students at the University of Virginia have been notified by a campus health official that Social Security numbers were printed along with their names and addresses on a recently mailed brochure touting a commercially offered student health insurance plan.
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X-rays of more than 15,000 patients stolen from Mich. warehouse
By Detroit Free Press | July 24, 2013
X-rays possibly containing personal information about 15,417 Henry Ford Health System patients were stolen from a Detroit warehouse in May, according to a letter the hospital system sent to patients earlier this month.
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Hackers hawk stolen insurance info online
By Dark Reading | July 19, 2013
The phrase "health insurance" may conjure up images of medical bills for some people, but for hackers it leads only to visions of dollar signs.
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Tech leaders call for pre-empting of states' data breach laws
By Joseph Conn | July 18, 2013
Technology industry association leaders who testified Thursday before a House subcommittee hearing on whether legislation is needed for data breach reporting called for Congress to pre-empt state laws on data breaches. But at least one witness opposed such preemption.
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Medical record breaches following Kardashian birth reveal ongoing issue
By Joseph Conn | July 15, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Unauthorized peeking at patient medical records remains an unsolved problem among healthcare providers, and privacy experts contend it's just in our nature to snoop.
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Lost piece of thumb drive contained thousands of patient records
By Journal Star (Lincoln, Neb.) | July 01, 2013
Somehow, somewhere, sometime in May, a computer chip containing medical records for more than 2,000 of a Lincoln, Neb., doctor's patients went missing—likely having slipped from the thumb drive he wore on a lanyard around his neck.
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Records missing at Iowa mental health facility
By Quad-City Times (Davenport, Iowa) | June 27, 2013
Iowa Department of Human Services officials issued an alert Wednesday to former patients at the Mental Health Institute in Independence and hundreds of state employees there and at other state facilities concerning a possible breach of their confidential information.
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