Not too long ago Walgreens made the news that pharmacists and all involved in clinical patient treatment areas would have access to a patient’s personal health record, used via their retail clinics. 
I don’t know if this is the specific information relating to those data bases or not as discussed in this article as is appears that the information relates to those patients. Back in 2010 Walgreens and Omnicare swapped businesses to where Walgreens took over the home infusion business, so of course this meant some data IT work had to be done to integrate with those records owned by Omni. Omnicare has had issues in the past with whistleblower legal cases with Johnson and Johnson over the years which was pretty highly publicized.
“Crescent Healthcare, a Walgreens company, manages and delivers integrated pharmacy and nursing solutions in alternate site settings. Accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC), we are committed to delivering exceptional quality care that is both clinically appropriate and cost effective.
Crescent Healthcare, a Walgreens company, is part of Walgreens Infusion Services, the leading provider of infusion therapies for over 30 years. “
Walgreens and Omnicare Swap Businesses–Giving Long Term Pharmacy Care to Omni and They Get Omni’s Home Infusion Business
The article states that “paper” was stolen as well and perhaps this was information that was yet to be input? The “hardware” was stolen, so we don’t know if this was a single computer or did they get away with some servers. So if one was a patient with their infusion drug areas, well it looks like that’s the information to include names, addresses dob, and clinical diagnoses that were lifted. You know Walgreens as well as so many other healthcare entities makes a ton of money selling data (like around short of $800 million in 2010, SEC Report on intangible income) and it has to be formatted and cleaned up for use with ensuring data integrity is present before it can be sold too, so one wonders what was being done with this data possibly? Was it work in progress to format data for sale? It could have been and then maybe not, but a good question to ask today with the huge epidemic of data being sold today and the surmounting flaws that keep growing at a rapid pace too.
Chances are few of those affected probably even know the potential amount of their data being sold, much less being stolen now too. It’s a tough world out there for consumers today and again breaches as such along with a federal website where consumers could look up who sells what kind of data and to who would be extremely helpful in times when breaches occur as well. Otherwise nobody knows until they get “that letter”. Right on the website the infusion drug page for Walgreens states they have experts to help you work with your insurers too. Their listed 98% satisfaction rate might drop a little after the breach, maybe?
So again when items like this happen it would make sense to have all banks, companies, etc. licensed and excise taxed on the data they sell as billions and billions of profit are made, running on servers 24/7 and you as a consumer are completely blind to the process, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. The US government needs to hire technologists to fight crime anyway. You might want to read what I said over at the weekend at the Daily Koz. This is just my opinion here and based on all that has been in the news related to making money on selling data and breaches perhaps this calls for a new focus of putting security with 
data ahead of making money selling data. The data selling has just gone hog wild out there and when a company has to make a decision today to expand and build a factory versus hiring a few technologists to set up data mining and selling with little or no federal regulation and the millions come in from selling it off the servers, where’s the incentive for companies to create jobs when this very profitable option is available? It’s definitely something to give some thought too as when it is used out of context, and we seeing some of this along with the good, it hurts consumers. Again we don’t know what the status was on the data stolen or where it was being directed but this is a good question we might all be asking more today from all of those banks and companies selling our data. So what would one think the thieves are going to do with the data, sell it of course, so wake up time. BD
Time Has Come to License and Tax the Data Sellers of the Web, Companies, Banks, Social Networks..Any One Making a Profit-Latest Microsoft/Google Privacy War Helping the Cause –Consumers Deserve to Know What Is Being Sold and To Who in a Searchable Format
A Walgreens healthcare company has notified patients and employees of a data breach after computer hardware and other paper records containing the personal health information and Social Security numbers of patients was stolen.
Anaheim, Calif.-based Crescent Healthcare mailed out letters to patients and employees Feb. 21, notifying them of the theft which occurred Dec. 28, 2012. According to the letter, an unknown person or persons broke into Crescent's billing center and stole the hardware, which may have contained patient names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, health insurance data, dates of birth and clinical diagnoses. The group notified authorities three days later.
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/walgreens-company-announces-data-breach?topic=18
John Gosciewski during WWII.
The medal recipient John Gosciewski talking with the local media on his belated tribute. 
Some of the people in attendance at the Medal Ceremony held Wednesday at the Kingston Armory. From lefty, Congressman Tom Marino, daughters Karel Gosciewski Zubris, Paul Gosciewski Tracy, John Gosciewski, Grandson Jason Zubris, daughter Susan Gosciewski Nerbercki and son in law John Zubris. 
Art Levinson, Sergey Brin, Anne Wojcicki, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, and Yuri Milner to recognize excellence in research aimed at curing intractable diseases and extending human life. The prize is administered by the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to advancing breakthrough research, celebrating scientists and generating excitement about the pursuit of science as a career. 
With the improvements, even single cancer cells can be accurately detected and safely isolated from patient blood samples for continuous analysis. 
We all know the Oscars are up and coming and that the movie has been nominated for an award. This is sad that the doctor now sits imprisoned sentenced to 33 years after helping the US. I don’t know all the details on why he was not given an opportunity to leave the country but sitting in prison for helping the US find Bin Laden doesn’t seem to where he should be by any means. The RHL group is working to bring some recognition and help to see if there’s anything that can be done. 
TDM-1 was the name given to the drug during the clinical trial. One thing that’s not any different is the price of another life extending drug, about $9800 a month and will be available in a couple of weeks. Kadcyla is a combination of a current cancer drug, Herceptin and a chemotherapy drug named DM-1. It is to be prescribed when Herceptin is no longer effective on it’s own. DM-1 on it’s own is way too toxic to delivery into the bloodstream alone. A normal course of treatment is about 9 months so you can do the math here to see at the price listed above, it is expensive. Of course they do have a hardship program where some might be able to get the drug for free. BD 
are performed along with any other type of risk numbers such as mortality rates, etc. and the results must be saying “dump the spouse” according to this article in Market Watch. This is pretty much talking about employer provided insurance. There are people out there that marry for this, well almost but it certainly is a big consideration, and maybe they really do. A couple years ago we had this story on the web. 
as $100 a month and depending on income that can be a big issue or an inconvenience. In 2014 we shall how this works as there will be exchanges for spouses to get insurance outside the company with the next provisions of the healthcare reform kick in. Some companies will only allow the spouse added on if they already have their own insurance. If plans are different and cover different doctors then both can’t see the same doctor. Risk assessments and costs are working on all budgets today. In some cases with Medicaid as this link below states, people get divorced to get coverage and it all comes back to income and how the numbers work out. This sure doesn’t do much for keep the American tradition of family together. BD 
