Bon Secours Health System, Inc. (“Bon Secours”) and its affiliates are committed to maintaining the privacy and security of our patient information. This notice is to inform our patients of an incident involving one of our vendor’s handling of some patients’ information. On June 14, 2016, Bon Secours discovered that files containing patient information inadvertently…
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SC: Employee fired after Bon Secours St. Francis Health System data breach discovered
Liv Osby reports: An employee at Bon Secours St. Francis Health System has been terminated after hospital officials discovered that she had inappropriately accessed personal patient information. Hospital employees began reporting in July that their insurers had recorded unpaid balances and charges for a prescription cream, officials said in a statement. An investigation concluded on…
Terminated employee continued to access Bon Secours' patients' billing information
When an employee is terminated, their login credentials to vendors’ databases with PHI must also be terminated. How often do you verify that it is actually being terminated properly? Bon Secours Kentucky notified 697 patients that a former employee had improperly accessed their information from a billing database maintained by Athena. In a statement uploaded to…
Bon Secours Notifying Patients of Information Security Breach
The Bon Secours Hampton Roads Health System posted this notice on Wednesday: Bon Secours Hampton Roads Health System officials announced today that they are proactively contacting former patients via letters on behalf of Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital to inform them of an electronic medical records security breach. The health system has contracted the services…
Virginia Beach man pleads guilty in identity theft, fraud (Bon Secours DePaul Medical Center follow-up)
Lauren King reports: A Virginia Beach man pleaded guilty today to aggravated identity theft and participating in a scheme to defraud Navy Federal Credit Union, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the eastern district of Virginia. Jorge Luis Silva-Davalos, 29, is to be sentenced Jan. 22 and faces up…
SC: Patients of Milestone Family Medicine notified of data breach
Liv Osby reports: Patients of a Bon Secours St. Francis Health System medical practice are being notified that their personal information may be at risk after a data breach at the practice. On Jan. 4, officials learned that an unauthorized person had gained access to some systems at Milestone Family Medicine in Greenville, St. Francis said…