Category: Health Data

The Sun Country Health Region (SCHR) has sent letters of apology to 66 patients whose right to privacy was breached. The SCHR discovered last June that one of its employees improperly reviewed the electronic prescription records of the 66 patients between March 2009 and January 2010. An extensive investigation has been conducted to determine the…

There’s a new Ponemon study out today, “Health Data at Risk in Development: A Call for Data Masking.” I haven’t read it yet,  but you can read the press release from Informatica on The Medical News for a quick overview of the survey.

I was just reading through the VA’s Monthly Report to Congress of Data Incidents for the period Nov 29, 2010 – Jan 2, 2010.  Apart from the usual reports about mis-mailings and the like, I noticed two incidents worth noting here: Incident Summary – White River Junction, VT: A Dartmouth owned thin client device located in…

A disciplinary case out of Texas, reported on Courthouse News, raises a question as to whether there was a privacy breach by an employee of Memorial Hermann in Texas: The Commission for Lawyer Discipline wants Raymond Lamar Fisher reprimanded, suspended or disbarred. It claims a hospital reported that its patients’ rooms had received 1,009 telephone…

Homa Quazilbash of KTVZ reports that 5 desktop and laptop computers were stolen from Bend Ophthamology in a smash and grab. The practice is located in the Pilot Butte Medical Clinic in Bend. No indication of whether there was any protected health information on the computers, but it’s pretty likely that there was. As of today,…

In addition to other blog entries posted today, a recent update to HHS’s breach tool indicates three more reports that have not been reported in the media: Southern Perioperative Services, P.C. in Alabama reported that 2,000 patients had PHI on a device that was stolen on or about November 17.  Their web site is parked and…