FBI – The Little Rock Division: Department of Justice Press Release
ane W. Duke, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, along with Thomas J. Browne, Special-Agent-in-Charge of the Little Rock Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today the sentencings of Dr. Jay Holland, of Little Rock, Arkansas; Sarah Elizabeth Miller, of England, Arkansas; and Candida Griffin, of Little Rock, Arkansas. United [...]
Lawsuit: A Heartland Manager Resigned Because Of PCI Compliance Issues
Heartland relationship managers were told that PCI compliance was not a big deal. One of Heartland’s relationship managers resigned on or around April 23, 2009, in part because of Heartland’s statements regarding its PCI compliance
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AHIMA floats privacy ‘bill of rights’ for entities outside HIPAA
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is looking to bridge what it sees as a yawning gap in health privacy protections with a seven-point bill of rights it hopes will push the healthcare industry to a “major paradigm shift” in patient privacy practices.
There are many entities that operate outside of the Health Insurance Portability [...]
FISMA Gets Teeth – S.773 and S.778 The Cybersecurity Act of 2009
A bill to ensure the continued free flow of commerce within the United States and with its global trading partners through secure cyber communications, to provide for the continued development and exploitation of the Internet and intranet communications for such purposes, to provide for the development of a cadre of information technology specialists to improve [...]
Mass. Makes Changes to ID Theft Regulations – Network World
State regulators in Massachusetts have made changes to a set of identity theft regulations.
The changes, according to a release from the state’s Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, maintain protections and also reinforce flexibility in compliance by small businesses and were made in response to concerns among small businesses who were concerned the proposed [...]
Govt: Man tried to steal 130M credit card numbers – Yahoo! News
Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a Miami man with the largest case of credit and debit card data theft ever in the United States.Authorities said Albert Gonzales, 28, has broken his own record for identity theft by hacking into more retail networks to steal data from 130 million accounts.
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Wis. woman fired for snooping on son wins job back — chicagotribune.com
A Wisconsin hospital employee fired for accessing the medical records of her estranged son so she could find him has been reinstated after an arbitrator called the punishment excessive.
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How will California’s tougher-than-HIPAA privacy laws impact U.S.? – FierceHealthIT
Last September, California enacted the toughest patient privacy protections in the country, even tougher than HIPAA. They include specific penalties for medical-record snooping, rules requiring providers to report breaches far more quickly than HIPAA and requirements that safeguards like passwords be put in place. The new laws even establish a new state office supervising patient [...]
Doctor and Two Former Hospital Employees Plead Guilty to HIPAA Violations
Dr. Holland, Medical Director of Select Specialty Hospital, located on the 6th floor of the St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center ( SVIMC ), admitted that after watching news reports on television, he logged on to the SVIMC patient records from his computer at home and accessed a patient’s files to determine if the news reports [...]
Michael Jackson doctor went too far #HIPAA
And HIPAA does apply to deceased individuals. “It doesn’t matter whether a patient is dead or alive — the HIPAA and state privacy law protections still apply,” Stephen K. Phillips, a healthcare attorney in San Francisco, told me. “A deceased patient’s rights accrue to his/her legal representative for enforcement and redress purposes.”
At the same time, [...]
