Via PRNewswire: RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif., March 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Eisenhower Medical Center (EMC) has implemented additional security procedures and protocols to help ensure patient privacy and security after a hospital computer and a television were stolen in a burglary on Friday, March 11. The computer was password protected but not encrypted. It contained an…
Category: Health Data
MemorialCare notified 2,250 patients of privacy breach
A recent entry in HHS’s breach tool referred to a breach allegedly involving Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. As it turns out when I began to try to find details of the breach, the breach was not at LBMMC, but was at Memorial Health Services (MemorialCare Health System). MHS has provided a copy of its…
Maryville Academy says sensitive data potentially compromised
The Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune and WGN News are reporting a breach involving records on nearly 3900 children held by Illinois childcare agency, the Maryville Academy. A notice on Maryville Academy‘s web site says: Notice Notice To All Current and Former Maryville Academy Residents and Clients Who Received Services Between 1992 and January 25,…
Ca: Medical records found in Regina recycling bin
Some people just still don’t get it and continue to dispose of sensitive records improperly. From CBC in Canada: Saskatchewan authorities are investigating after several boxes containing the medical files of about 1,000 patients were discovered intact in a paper-recycling bin in Regina. Gary Dickson, the province’s information and privacy commissioner, told CBC News on…
ANSI and Shared Assessments Launch Initiative to Examine Financial Impact and Harm of Breached Patient Information
Healthcare organizations are struggling with two key concerns today: how to protect patient information and how to better understand the financial harm caused when protected health information (PHI) is lost or stolen. A new project – led by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), via its Identity Theft Prevention and Identity Management Standards Panel (IDSP),…
ADA Violated When Employer Responds to State Subpoena and Discloses Former Employee's Medical Records
Joseph Lazzarotti writes: The confidentiality of medical records requirement under the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) is violated when an employer discloses a current or former employee’s medical records in response to a state court subpoena absent the employee’s release or some other exception under the ADA, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently held in Bennett…