Aultman Health Foundation posted a notice on its web site on August 6 concerning a stolen laptop that says, in part: A password-protected laptop maintained by Aultman HealthCare in Your Home was stolen on June 7, 2010. A police report was filed at the time of the incident. The information on the laptop computer included…
Category: Health Data
UK: Laptop with patients' medical records stolen from health centre
Laptop thefts are also everywhere. A laptop containing hundreds of patients’ names and medical details has been stolen from a city health centre. The computer was taken from an office at the Mary Potter Centre in Hyson Green. NHS bosses have now written to the 211 physiotherapy patients affected to apologise after the theft, in…
Ie: Patient information leak at Sligo General
Paper breaches, from small to large, are everywhere. Confidential information on patients at Sligo General Hospital was made public due to staff mistakenly faxing the details to the wrong number. While in a separate incident more details were leaked when a piece of paper with a patients name and hospital number was found outside the…
HITRUST: HIPAA Breaches Near $1 Billion
Dom Nicastro reports: Covered entities and business associates reporting breaches of unsecured personal health information (PHI) affecting 500 or more individuals to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) together could spend nearly $1 billion because of those breaches. According to a report from the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST), 108 entities submitting the breach reports…
Loma Linda offers help after desktops stolen in June
Darrell R. Santschi reports: Loma Linda University’s dental school has hired a credit monitoring and repair firm to help potential identity theft victims. Kroll Inc. will offer assistance to any of the 10,100 patients whose personal information was contained in three desktop computers stolen from the school the weekend of June 12, university spokesman Dustin…
MA: Patients’ files from at least four hospitals left at public dump
Liz Kowalczyk reports that four Massachusetts community hospitals – Milford, Holyoke, Carney, and Milton – are investigating how tens of thousands of patient health records, some containing Social Security numbers and sensitive medical diagnoses, ended up in a pile described as 20 feet long by 20 feet wide at Georgetown Transfer Station. Read more of…