Category: Health Data

Mohit Kohli provides some analysis of breaches: The below chart represent highest number of security breaches happing in Healthcare sector of US. The immediate question arise to everyone mind; is it because of low security standard or control available? This is not True!!! There are strong controls like HIPPA (sic) to address security requirement, but…

As a follow-up to a breach previously reported on this blog involving an employee of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Shadyside Hospital, multiple media sources are reporting that the employee pleaded guilty last week to to taking the names, social security numbers and birth dates of 19 patients there. Read more in the Pittsburgh…

Paper medical records belonging to approximately 1,200 patients who visit Sutter Gould Medical Foundation physicians in Stockton and Lodi were lost May 27. They ended up buried in a landfill. The documents – all in one box – contained patient names, addresses, diagnostic test results, provider notes and correspondence, Social Security numbers, disability forms and…

Interesting:  the three new breaches on HHS’s breach tool that I hadn’t heard about already all involved paper records.  Here are the entries from their tool showing the name(s) of involved entities, the number of patients affected or notified, the date of the breach, and the type of breach: Medicare Fee-for-Service Program, MD, “Cahaba Government…

It was only a matter of time until we found out how many people Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System had to notify about the laptop stolen from an employee’s car in March. The incident has now been posted on HHS’s breach tool and it appears  they reported that 400,000 patients were affected. The employee was authorized…