Cathryn J. Prince reports: Insurance giant Health Net’s historic settlement over a security breach leaves some area physicians unsettled. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced a settlement with Health Net and its affiliates for failing to secure private patient medical records and financial information on nearly 500,000 Connecticut patients. However, the settlement doesn’t address the breach…
Category: Health Data
Lawyer: Patients notified about misplaced records
Amanda Chan reports the follow-up to an incident previously covered on PHIprivacy.net: The Charlotte psychologist whose patient records were discovered at a county recycling facility last month contacted 1,590 of his patients via letter to inform them of the incident on Friday, his lawyer said. Ervin Batchelor, owner of Carolina Center for Development and Rehabilitation,…
AZ: Center for Neurosciences patient information breached
Another follow-up on a previously noted breach, although in this case, our first awareness of the breach was due to its report on HHS’s web site. HHS’s logs indicate that the theft of the computer was reported to HHS on March 4, 2010. From KVOA: The Center for Neurosciences has made contact with almost all…
Lawyer: Patients notified about misplaced records
Amanda Chan follows up on a breach reported in June: The Charlotte psychologist whose patient records were discovered at a county recycling facility last month contacted 1,590 of his patients via letter to inform them of the incident on Friday, his lawyer said. Ervin Batchelor, owner of Carolina Center for Development and Rehabilitation, had his…
NY: Medical and doctors’ records scattered all over North Tonawanda
Dear Congress: Please view the TV coverage below and then tell me again why none of you have the determination and will to write and enact a bill that requires protection of paper records containing sensitive information and that requires notification in the event of a breach. George Richert reports: Confidential medical records were scattered…
Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine Report Stolen Laptop
From the Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital‘s web sites: On May 13, 2010, a physician from Baylor College of Medicine and affiliated with Texas Children’s Hospital had his password-protected laptop stolen from an office at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. Electronic files on the laptop contained demographic and clinical information of…