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[privacy] Operator of 12 Hospitals Informs of Lost Data
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:53:23 GMT
Via MSNBC (AP). [snip] The operator of 12 hospitals in Indiana and Illinois is notifying more than a quarter-million patients that compact discs containing their Social Security numbers and other personal information were lost for three days over the summer. However, officials said they do not believe any of the 260,000 patientsÂ’ information was improperly accessed. The Sisters of St. Francis Health Services, which operates 10 hospitals in Indiana and two in Illinois, said in the warning letter that an employee of a medical billing contractor copied the data onto several CDs in July and placed them in a new computer bag to work from home. [snip] More: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15403873/ Again, what effect has HIPAA had on these sorts of data losses and disclsoures. Absolutely none.
From yesterday:
[snip] None of the institutions involved in these incidents has been fined under the highly touted medical privacy law, known as HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). In fact, there have been 22,664 HIPAA privacy-related complaints filed since the privacy rule took effect in 2004, and not a single institution has been fined for privacy lapses, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, which enforces HIPPA. It's not clear that any of the three incidents above generated HIPAA privacy complaints, so the total number of privacy-related incidents is no doubt higher. [snip] More: http://redtape.msnbc.com/2006/10/two_years_ago_w.html HIPAA is a bad joke. - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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