Wing Children’s Holiday Party
Saturday December 3rd, 2011
@ Hanger 1107 from 0900-1200
Santa arrives at 9:15am
Come out and play with your children and get a photo taken with Santa in front of a KC-135
11/20/11
Tricare Data Breach is Real
11/18/2011 - WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Science Applications International Corporation is mailing letters to affected military clinic and hospital patients regarding a data breach involving personally identifiable and protected health information.
On Sept. 14, SAIC reported the loss of backup tapes containing electronic health care records used in the military health system to capture patient data from 1992 through Sept. 7, 2011, in San Antonio-area military treatment facilities.
This includes patients filling pharmacy prescriptions and other patients whose laboratory workups were processed in these same MTFs, even if the patients were receiving treatment elsewhere. The data may include Social Security numbers, addresses and phone numbers, and some personal health data such as clinical notes, laboratory tests and prescriptions. There is no financial data, such as credit card or bank account information, on the backup tapes.
The risk of harm to patients is judged to be low since retrieving the data on the tapes would require knowledge of, and access to, specific hardware and software and knowledge of the system and data structure. As a precaution, the assistant secretary of defense (health affairs) determined that SAIC should notify potentially impacted persons or households of this incident by letter.
As directed by TRICARE Management Activity, SAIC will provide credit monitoring and credit restoration services for one year for patients requesting them. The credit restoration services being provided exceeds current industry standards for responding to a data breach.
SAIC's Incident Response Center is available to answer patient's questions, including helping with signing up for credit monitoring, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST. Concerned patients should call the response center to ask questions and verify authenticity of the letter:
- United States, call toll free at 855-366-0140
- International, call collect at 952-556-8312
For more information, visit http://www.tricare.mil/Breach/.
(Courtesy of TRICARE Public Affairs.)
On Sept. 14, SAIC reported the loss of backup tapes containing electronic health care records used in the military health system to capture patient data from 1992 through Sept. 7, 2011, in San Antonio-area military treatment facilities.
This includes patients filling pharmacy prescriptions and other patients whose laboratory workups were processed in these same MTFs, even if the patients were receiving treatment elsewhere. The data may include Social Security numbers, addresses and phone numbers, and some personal health data such as clinical notes, laboratory tests and prescriptions. There is no financial data, such as credit card or bank account information, on the backup tapes.
The risk of harm to patients is judged to be low since retrieving the data on the tapes would require knowledge of, and access to, specific hardware and software and knowledge of the system and data structure. As a precaution, the assistant secretary of defense (health affairs) determined that SAIC should notify potentially impacted persons or households of this incident by letter.
As directed by TRICARE Management Activity, SAIC will provide credit monitoring and credit restoration services for one year for patients requesting them. The credit restoration services being provided exceeds current industry standards for responding to a data breach.
SAIC's Incident Response Center is available to answer patient's questions, including helping with signing up for credit monitoring, Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST. Concerned patients should call the response center to ask questions and verify authenticity of the letter:
- United States, call toll free at 855-366-0140
- International, call collect at 952-556-8312
For more information, visit http://www.tricare.mil/Breach/.
(Courtesy of TRICARE Public Affairs.)
Huge Thanks to Everyone who Made Chili, Baked Yummy Desserts, or contributed Accoutrements for our Chili Extravaganza on Friday!
1st Place SSG James “Klue” Klusener
2nd Place went to SRA Rachel Haas
Start Planning your recipes NOW for next year!
The Venison/Cherry Chili that Won was AmaZing!
McConnell Operation Cookie Drop
December 9th, 2011
It’s time for the 22 ARW annual cookie drive for the active duty men & women who live in the dorms. There are approximately 400 of our young Airmen to spread some Holiday Cheer to and plan to do this by making 150 Dozen Cookies of any kind to be delivered to them on December 9th.
If you choose to help us by baking, Cookies can be dropped off in nonreturnable containers and/or gallon Ziploc bags at the Medical Group Building where Volunteers will be waiting to collect them from the Circle Drive at the Main Entrance to the Hospital from 0700-0800 on Dec. 9th 2011.
If you can’t make that time please have them to the Basement of the Hospital No Later Than 1000 where they will be assembled by Volunteers from 0900-1100.
If you can’t/don’t bake you can still impact these Awesome folks! Volunteers are needed to assemble Plates of Cookies that will be Delivered by Wing Leadership around lunch time.
If you can Help, Please RSVP to Mrs. Charlotte Rupp at pelicans014@gmail.com by December 7th. Please let her know how many Dozen you can do and/or if you can help with assembly.
Happy Holidays! Heather
If you can Help, Please RSVP to Mrs. Charlotte Rupp at pelicans014@gmail.com by December 7th. Please let her know how many Dozen you can do and/or if you can help with assembly.
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