Statement by Charleston Area Medical Center: We wanted to let you know about a security incident that occurred at Charleston Area Medical Center’s Research Institute, which involved the personal information of some of our patients. On February 8, 2011, we learned that one of our databases containing information about 3655 patients had security vulnerability. The…
Category: Health Data
WVa hospital breached – but we won't know who until Weds.
Well, it seems that a hospital in West Virginia has had a breach but that we won’t be told who until a press conference tomorrow. Anna Baxter of WSAZ reports: The West Virginia Attorney General has scheduled a news conference Tuesday to discuss a data breach at a hospital in Kanawha County. According to a…
Other incidents revealed by HHS breach tool today
Today’s update of HHS’s breach tool includes six breach reports, some of which we knew about already. Two of the incidents had been covered on my companion blog but not reported here as it was not clear that PHI were involved, but it seems that PHI must have been involved: The State of South Carolina Budget…
Baylor Health Care System notifies over 8,000 patients after portable ultrasound machine with PHI is stolen
Baylor Heart and Vascular Center in Texas reports that over 8,000 patients might have been affected by the theft of a portable ultrasound diagnostic machine. The device was stolen from a patient’s room in Baylor’s Jack and Jane Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital (BHVH) in Dallas on the evening of December 2 or the early…
Patient privacy should be respected abroad and online
A news release from the University of Florida serves as a timely reminder: Taking an unauthorized photo of a patient and posting it on Facebook is a giant no-no for health-care providers, who follow strict federal guidelines protecting patient privacy. But what if the patient is a little girl in Ecuador receiving a vaccine from…
Health record privacy violation haunts VA worker, she says
Brian Bowling reports: The Pittsburgh Veterans Affairs Healthcare System is trying to use a technical violation of its leave policy to punish an employee who reported a violation of the federal health record privacy law, a union official said. “That’s about it in a nutshell,” said Keith Watson, president of American Federation of Government Employees…