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		<title>PA: Ephrata Community Hospital fires employee for snooping in patient records</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a statement on their web site linked from their home page as a privacy notice, Ephrata Community Hospital in Pennsylvania writes: Ephrata Community Hospital takes our obligation to protect our patients&#8217; personal health information seriously. Regrettably, this notice concerns some of that information. On April 16, 2013, we learned that one of our employees had accessed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HHS releases statement on Prime Healthcare/Shasta Regional settlement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a press release issued yesterday and posted today, HHS writes: Shasta Regional Medical Center (SRMC) has agreed to a comprehensive corrective action plan to settle a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) investigation concerning potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. The HHS Office for Civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NC veterans’ PHI left in recycle bin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Associated Press reports: The Veterans Affairs hospital in Fayetteville says documents containing the personal information of nearly 1,100 veterans were found in a recycling bin two months ago. The Fayetteville VA Medical Center announced Friday it&#8217;s notifying the 1,093 affected veterans whose consultation reports from the optical shop were incorrectly placed in a recycle bin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Auckland District Health Board overreact to privacy breach?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the U.S., we expect entities to take strong and effective action to address employee snooping or improper sharing of patient confidential information. But a professional group in New Zealand is not happy with the Auckland District Health Board&#8217;s response to a breach previously reported on this blog involving a patient who sought emergency treatment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police Agencies Are Assembling Records of DNA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Goldstein reports: Slowly, and largely under the radar, a growing number of local law enforcement agencies across the country have moved into what had previously been the domain of the F.B.I. and state crime labs — amassing their own DNA databases of potential suspects, some collected with the donors’ knowledge, and some without it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NZ: Pathways mops up privacy breach</title>
		<link>http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=12936</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jenee Tibshraeny of NewsTalkZB reports: An organisation that works with mental health patients is trying to mop up the mess it created by a somewhat old-fashioned privacy breach. It lost documents containing the names, addresses and clinical details of 65 of its clients, when a staff member left their bag on a Wellington bus last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.K.: Fax blunder leads to £55,000 penalty for Staffordshire trust</title>
		<link>http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=12935</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a monetary penalty of £55,000 to North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust. The penalty follows a serious breach of the Data Protection Act which resulted in sensitive medical details of three patients being sent to a member of the public. The details were released between August and September 2011 when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital notifying 12,900 after laptop stolen from secured badge-access area</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lucile Packard Children&#8217;s Hospital is no stranger to stolen equipment containing PHI.  In January, 2010, they self-reported a breach involving a stolen desktop computer with PHI on 532 patients, and as recently as January, they notified 57,000 patients after a laptop was stolen from a physician&#8217;s car.  Now the hospital is notifying patients about another breach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House panel to probe alleged seizure of medical records by IRS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And speaking of outrageous breaches, Elise Viebeck reports: A top House committee launched another probe of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Tuesday after a lawsuit alleged that the agency improperly seized millions of personal medical records in California. In a letter, Republican leaders on the Energy and Commerce panel asked the IRS to explain how it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prime Healthcare and Shasta Regional Center settle HHS complaint, to pay $275,000</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if you can hear me, but I generally groan when I read a settlement that permits the party to make no admission of guilt. The FTC permits it, and HHS also permits it. I understand why they may choose to do that, but seriously, there are some breaches that are just so [...]]]></description>
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