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CT: Medical papers found in trash bin may lead to fines
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:00:26 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.acorn-online.com/news/publish/greenwich/18807.shtml A box left in a trash bin could end up leaving some local doctors a little lighter in the wallet. The Greenwich Post was given a box filled medical documents from the Dearfield Medical Building that may have been improperly disposed of. The box was discovered at 4 Dearfield Drive inside a trash bin in May and contains information about lab tests and insurance approvals as well as other medical issues. These documents are not medical charts, but do contain patient names and contact information. According the United States Department of Health and Human Services, under the privacy regulations for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), documents such as the ones in the trash bin are supposed to be kept confidential and then shredded when disposed of, not just thrown out in a box. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 209 million compromised records in 685 incidents over 7 years.
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