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CVS Sued for Alleged Privacy Violations

Hunton Privacy

On March 7, 2011, Arthur Steinberg and the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Health and Welfare Fund sued CVS Caremark Corporation (“CVS”), alleging that its unauthorized disclosure of protected health information (“PHI”) constituted an unfair trade practice. In 2009, CVS paid $2.25

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French Data Protection Authority Releases New Guidance for Health Professionals

Hunton Privacy

On July 1, 2011, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) released a comprehensive handbook for health professionals (the “Guidance”). Social security number. Pharmaceutical files. The Guidance is divided into twenty chapters, each dealing with a specific topic about health data, including: Access to medical files.

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Welcome, Chris Hylen! Reltio’s New CEO.

Reltio

In 2011, I saw three major trends: . It will be a full-time role with functional responsibility for all of our product technology across engineering, product management and security. . Let’s take a step back in time. Let’s start at the beginning. . The Inspiration. And this is just the beginning.

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HHS Issues New Model Privacy Notice for PHR Vendors

Hunton Privacy

On September 12, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (“ONC”) unveiled a model privacy notice for personal health records (the “PHR Model Privacy Notice”).

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

As detailed in my 2014 book Spam Nation , Vrublevsky not-so-secretly ran a pharmacy affiliate spam program called Rx-Promotion , which paid spammers and virus writers to blast out tens of billions of junk emails advertising generic Viagra and controlled pharmaceuticals like pain relief medications. Kink,” “Mr. Heppner,” and “Ms.