August 27th, 2008
Alarmed by breaches in which UCLA Medical Center employees snooped in the confidential records of celebrities including Britney Spears, Farrah Fawcett and California First...
August 17th, 2008
When Jill went to her doctor two years ago for an operation on her uterus, she didn’t expect that details of her problem would...
August 7th, 2008
‘Total files’ of patients, many with HIV and AIDS, missing
A low-level Harris County Hospital District administrator probably violated federal law when she downloaded medical...
August 6th, 2008
Employees of Sparrow Hospital were fired or disciplined in July after it was discovered they attempted to access computerized medical information about Gov. Jennifer...
August 5th, 2008
Even after UCLA Medical Center warned employees that it was cracking down on unauthorized access to medical records, the privacy of a “well-known individual”...
August 5th, 2008
The Transportation Security Administration suspended Verified Identity Pass from enrolling travelers in its pre-screening program after a laptop computer containing the records of 33,000...
August 5th, 2008
Pop chanteuse Joni Mitchell famously sang, “You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone,” but at the Veterans Affairs Department–according to the Government...
August 4th, 2008
Poor system testing caused a medical records privacy breach affecting over 200,000 members of Georgia Blue Cross and Blue Shield. The case has implications...
July 30th, 2008
An attorney who represents Oakland police officers is working to find out who leaked medical information about a police trainee, and said Wednesday that...
July 29th, 2008
Insurance benefit letters sent to wrong addresses by Blue Cross and Blue Shield reveal claim histories, open door to ID theft.
Georgia’s largest health insurer...
