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		<title>Smile for Facebook!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courthouse News reports: Ambulance workers snapped a picture of a patient riding in the back of an ambulance and posted the photo on Facebook, the patient claims in St. Joseph Circuit Court in Indiana. A copy of the complaint can be found here.]]></description>
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		<title>Rite Aid Agrees to Pay $1 Million to Settle HIPAA Privacy Case</title>
		<link>http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=3161</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See the companion press release from the FTC in a previous post. Rite Aid Corporation and its 40 affiliated entities (RAC) have agreed to pay $1 million to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rite Aid Settles FTC Charges That It Failed to Protect Medical and Financial Privacy of Customers and Employees</title>
		<link>http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=3159</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is the FTC&#8217;s press release. In the next post, I&#8217;ll publish HHS&#8217;s press release on their settlement with Rite Aid. Rite Aid Corporation has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it failed to protect the sensitive financial and medical information of its customers and employees, in violation of federal law. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Estranged from family, doctor snoops in records</title>
		<link>http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=3155</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lora Pabst of the Star Tribune reported this a few weeks ago: As his 22-year marriage was falling apart, Dr. Mark Schleiss was desperate for information about his estranged family. Court records show that his wife, Collett, wouldn&#8217;t return his phone calls. His oldest daughter refused to see him before she moved to Oregon for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The plot thickens….</title>
		<link>http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=3153</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Adams reports: A Pennsylvania company hired by South Shore Hospital to dispose of patient records outsourced the work to a second company, contributing to delays announcing the disappearance of 800,000 patients’ files. Phoenixville, Pa.-based Archive Data Solutions was notified in early May by the outside vendor that 800,000 individuals’ records removed from the hospital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hk: Cancer patient data stolen from Queen Mary Hospital</title>
		<link>http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=3147</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colleen Lee reports: There are fears the personal data of more than 700 cancer patients and dozens of volunteers may have been leaked following a theft at Queen Mary Hospital. Computer equipment belonging to the Li Ka Shing Foundation Hospice Service Program was found missing around 8am yesterday. The premises had been forcibly entered and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>University of Texas Arlington server containing medical records and SSN hacked</title>
		<link>http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=3141</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From UTA&#8217;s web site: The University of Texas at Arlington recently learned that one of its file servers had been compromised, which potentially exposed the prescription records of approximately 27,000 individuals to an unauthorized source. Federal and state authorities have been notified, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Texas Department of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PA: Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Notify Patients of Security Breach</title>
		<link>http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=3138</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the hospital&#8217;s web site today: Notice to Patients: Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals has notified approximately 21,000 patients that there was a theft of a laptop computer containing personal information. Affected patients have been sent a letter detailing the extensive identity protection resources being made available to them. On June 14, 2010, an employee reported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado agency notifies 105,470 clients of stolen hard drive</title>
		<link>http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=3134</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy &#038; Financing is notifying 105,470 clients receiving state-provided health insurance that a stolen hard drive contained some of their personal information. A statement on the agency&#8217;s web site does not provide much detail and simply says: State officials discovered that there was an unauthorized removal of a computer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(update) South Shore Hospital contractor named</title>
		<link>http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=3129</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although not named in South Shore Hospital&#8217;s press release about a lost shipment of back-up files slated for destruction, the data management firm was named in the hospital&#8217;s report to the U.S. Department of Health &#38; Human Services.  It&#8217;s Iron Mountain Data Products (but see correspondence/clarification below). Update: two commenters below&#8211; both from Iron Mountain [...]]]></description>
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