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   HIPPA

   

   Michael Kohne, Apr 18th, 2007 @ 4:35pm

   
   

   I bet this is worse for CVS than Radio Shack - CVS has HIPPA rules to follow (you know, that medical privacy law?). I'd be surprised if several other folk don't take an interest in CVS's operations now.

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   HIPPA is right

   

   insomniac4104, Apr 18th, 2007 @ 5:27pm

   
   

   I do database programming for a health care company. I had to go though hours of HIPPA training and pass an exam before I was allowed to even touch a query. Not to mention on top of it we are SOX compliant. If we though out medical records we would have our asses handed to us. We even have strict rules about husban/wife ect in the company because of the ablitlity to look at there healtcare and modify there own claims. How the fu*k did CVS get away with this crap.

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   Good Lord!

   

   lavi d (profile), Apr 18th, 2007 @ 5:31pm

   
   

   I thought when I read the title, "The folks who maintain the Content Versioning System are careless with credit card info? Do they even need credit card info for some reaon?"
   
   http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/
   
   Guess that's what I get for being in front of a computer 16 hours a day.

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   Did anyone say HIPPA?

   

   CubFx, Apr 18th, 2007 @ 6:27pm

   
   

   Aren't HIPPA regulations supposed to protect consumer's health care information? It seems that the disposal of prescription information in an unsecured manner would be a serious violation/
   
   Unlike previous regulations, HIPPA was supposed to have teeth. Where are they?

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   RandomThoughts, Apr 18th, 2007 @ 7:04pm

   
   

   CVS will pay some fines on this one over the prescription information.

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   I work for CVS

   

   Jon, Apr 18th, 2007 @ 7:46pm

   
   

   I am a supervisor at a cvs and let me tell you it is drilled in their heads to not throw it away. If it was happening it should not be on all of cvs but the stores in question. We do not throw any of ours away. All garbage, all receipts, etc get put in a special bag. These bags do NOT go in the garbage. We better never catch an employee throwing this info away in the dumpster because we WILL fire them on the spot.
   
   I hate it when a small number of stores make the whole chain look bad. The store I work at which I can tell you is not in Texas, (I am not surprised it happened in Texas though) is very careful with all information.

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   HIPPA

   

   Nobody Special, Apr 18th, 2007 @ 8:09pm

   
   

   This has a lot of potential for major fines and penalties. I would not be surprised if someone goes to jail for it. If memory serves me correct, the penalty can be $10,000 and 10 years in jail for EACH infraction.
   
   I work doing tech support for a doctor's group. Anything that remotely relates to a patient is to be shredded including prints from test patient records. The cost is negligible compared to the cost of a single incident.

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   Just so you know...

   

   Wizard Prang, Apr 19th, 2007 @ 7:04am

   
   

   ... it's HIPAA

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   Anonymous Coward, Apr 19th, 2007 @ 7:16am

   
   

   The fine may be $10,000 and 10 years in jail for each infraction but similar "penalties" are in place for other things but all that ends up happening is that the company pays a simple fine.
   
   Part of the problem is that EACH infraction is considered the act in whole, not EACH individual piece that was thrown out. Personally I think the fines and jail time would have much more impact AND actually get businesses attention if it was for EACH piece thrown out.

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    Re: I Work for CVS

    

    Witty Nickname, Apr 19th, 2007 @ 1:57pm

    
    

    I love how the CVS employee turned a story about Identity theft and carelessness of information regarding his company into an insult to Texans. Yeah, Texans are all dummies, imagine how much better this nation would be without all those pesty companies like Texas Instruments, Dell, Halliburton, Shell, Exxon....
    
    Well, he at least must be really smart, he managed to be an employee at CVS!

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    Jon, Apr 22nd, 2007 @ 6:07pm

    
    

    Witty Nickname I'm sorry you took offense to my comments. I did not claim Texans were dumb I said it was not surprising it happened there. The four states things happen that cause big problems (Mainly because of media exposure) are California, Texas, Florida, and New York. I'm sorry if that offended you but you in essence did the same thing by blasting me. You sound to have a problem with the company from your remarks. I just graduated with a bachelors degree and an associates degree so I am not as "stupid" as you are inferring. However in my area jobs aren't abundant and I took what I could get. Being in a management position right after college is not a bad start.
    
    My point was that it is not all stores and the whole chain should not have to suffer for what few stores have done. I also pointed out that we take every precaution at our store not to have this info taken. It is held IN the store at a special location and taken from the store by a truck which then takes it to an area mandated by the state where it can be incinerated. Almost all information goes into this area. Anything that has a customers NAME even goes in these areas.
    
    Once again I apologize if you took offense.

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    I love it!

    

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