Re: North Carolina - EMS patient data is stolen

[blitz <blitz () strikenet kicks-ass net>]

In their position, this is prob a violation of patients HIPPA rights.
HOWEVER, the organization in charge of enforcing HIPPA complaints, 
has yet to undertake a single enforcement action. Wonder why? It's 
full of self-protecting doctors, insurance-scum and is protecting 
their own backsides of course.
HIPPA is worthless!


At 19:34 7/17/2006, you wrote:

> (From June, but not yet mentioned on this list.  Courtesy Beth Givens
> and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse):
>
> http://www.fayettevillenc.com/article?id=235733
>
> Published on Wednesday, June 21, 2006
>
> By Nancy McCleary
> Staff writer
>
> A portable computer containing the personal information of more than
> 24,000 people was stolen from a Cumberland County ambulance June 8.
>
> The computer contained the information of 24,350 people treated in the
> past year by Cumberland County Emergency Medical Services.
>
> Cape Fear Valley Health System, which operates the EMS, has notified the
> N.C. Attorney General.s Office and mailed letters to the affected people,
> urging them to monitor bank and credit card accounts, said Clinton Weaver,
> a spokesman for the health system.
>
> "We're treating this incident seriously," he said. "We know the importance
> of patient confidentiality, and we're looking at ways to prevent this in
> the future."
>
> [...]
>
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