Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital is no stranger to stolen equipment containing PHI. In January, 2010, they self-reported a breach involving a stolen desktop computer with PHI on 532 patients, and as recently as January, they notified 57,000 patients after a laptop was stolen from a physician’s car. Now the hospital is notifying patients about another breach…
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$250,000 penalty issued to Lucile Packard Children's Hospital was an error – CDPH
A breach at Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital in 2010 generated a number of posts on this blog – especially after the hospital was reportedly fined $250,000 by California for a delay in notifying patients of the breach. I recently reported that the hospital had settled its appeal with the state and did not have…
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford notifying 57,000 patients after laptop stolen from physician's car
From their press release, issued yesterday: Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford and the Stanford University School of Medicine are notifying patients by mail that a password-protected laptop computer containing limited medical information on pediatric patients was stolen from a physician’s car away from campus on the night of January 9, 2013. This incident was…
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Appeals CDPH Fine (updated)
For Release: September 09, 2010 PALO ALTO, Calif. — Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford is appealing a California Department of Public Health (CDPH) penalty. The CDPH on April 23, 2010, after the self-reporting of a security incident by Packard Children’s, alerted the hospital that a fine of $250,000 was being levied as a result…
Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital avoids $250,000 penalty for late breach notification (updated)
UPDATE: In a statement sent to PHIprivacy.net on March 7, a CDPH spokesperson writes: The original $250,000 penalty posting was an error discovered during the appeal. The correct calculation should have been $100/day times the number of days the facility failed to report the breach to CDPH, for a total penalty of $1100. So after…
Did the punishment fit the "crime?" (the Lucile Salter Packard Hospital breach fines)
Jason C. Gavejian writes about a hospital breach that is causing waves because of the exorbitant fine the state imposed. Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at StanfordUniversity was fined $250,000 earlier this year by the California Department of Public Health (“CDPH”) for an alleged delay in reporting a breach under California’s health information privacy law. What makes…