Here’s a case where a healthcare provider is maintaining that a privacy breach was necessary to protect the health and safety of others: An Invercargill doctor is refusing to settle over a privacy complaint, saying it would be “moral cowardice”. Robert Henderson is due to appear before the Human Rights Tribunal on November 30 for…
Category: Health Data
Five charged with stealing patient info as part of ID theft/fraud ring
More on a breach reported earlier in the week involving Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale: A criminal complaint was filed this week against five people who are accused of stealing patient information from Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale and a physician’s office in Aventura. Albert Anthony Andrulonis, 26, of Davie, Raushanah Bowleg, 33,…
Five Floridians charged with stealing patient info from HCH and doctor's office
More on a breach reported earlier in the week involving Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale: A criminal complaint was filed this week against five people who are accused of stealing patient information from Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale and a physician’s office in Aventura. Albert Anthony Andrulonis, 26, of Davie, Raushanah Bowleg, 33,…
Three new breaches revealed by HHS/OCR
While I was away, I see that there was another update to HHS’s breach tool web page: Debra C. Duffy, a dentist in Texas, reported that 4,700 patients were notified of a breach that occurred on August 5 that involved the theft a laptop. I do not see a notice on her web site, so…
Patient and personal info exposed when package sent by courier damaged in transit
Northridge Hospital Medical Center in California notified the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human services that 837 patients were affected by a breach that occurred on October 16 involving paper records. A notice on their home page says, “Northridge Hospital Medical Center has experienced a security incident involving Medicare and Medi-Cal patient information. If you…
CT: VNA patients are warned of possible security breach after computer theft
Judy Benson reports: About 12,000 current and former patients of the Visiting Nurse Association of Southeastern Connecticut will be receiving letters notifying them of a possible security breach of agency data. Mary Lenzini, VNA president, said Thursday that the letters are being sent after a laptop computer used by one of the visiting nurses was…