Seattle health system will pay $100K HIPAA fine

www.fiercehealthcare.com | Jul 18, 2008

A Seattle-based health system has agreed to pay a $100,000 HIPAA fine--as well as improve its medical data security--after failing to properly secure data backup tapes, disks and laptops. During 2005 Read more...

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HHS cracks down: provider to pay $100,000 in HIPAA penalties over lost laptops

www.healthcareitnews.com | Jul 17, 2008

The Department of Health and Human Services has levied a $100,000 fine on Seattle-based Providence Health and Services for alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules.

http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=9610&fromRSS=true

Court Denies Defendant's Post-Production Motion for Cost-Shifting as Untimely and Inappropriate in the Context of "Accessible" ESI

www.ediscoverylaw.com | Jul 16, 2008

Cason-Merenda v. Detroit Med. Ctr., 2008 WL 2714239 (E.D. Mich. July 7, 2008) In this class action litigation, defendant moved, pursuant to Fed. R. Ci

http://www.ediscoverylaw.com/2008/07/articles/case-summaries/court-denies-defendants-postproduction-motion-for-costshifting-as-untimely-and-inappropriate-in-the-context-of-accessible-esi/

eDiscovery’s Greatest Challenge to Lawyers

www.slaw.ca | Jul 16, 2008

There is little doubt that eDiscovery presents a challenge to lawyers. Identifying exactly what kind of a challenge it is has proven to be a little harder to define. Some would consider the sheer volume of ESI to be the greatest challenge. Others would say it’s the impenetrable technical jargon

http://www.slaw.ca/2008/07/16/ediscovery%e2%80%99s-greatest-challenge-to-lawyers/

Infosecurity Europe - Press Releases

www.infosec.co.uk

12th October 2005 Up to 10 million people in the UK may have had private, personal data compromised this year alone if a pattern of loss similar to the United States has been repeated elsewhere, security experts revealed today.

http://www.infosec.co.uk/page.cfm/action=Press/PressID=52

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Luck, love and Larry

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He now shares first-hand the long and emotionally draining slog facing his clients, his friends and the general public also rendered homeless by the 290km per hour king-hit cyclone. “It’s amazing.

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