I know we’re in the middle of a pandemic, but an incident involving Avalon Health Care Management occurred before all that. And once again, I find myself scratching my head over the timeline in a notification and how Health & Human Services/Office for Civil Rights will view the timeline in terms of compliance with the…
Category: Health Data
Doctor’s Claims Against Employee Over Stolen Hard Drive Revived
Mary Anne Pazanowski reports: A Utah physician can proceed with several claims against a former employee who allegedly stole a computer hard drive containing patient information and used it to support a False Claims Act complaint against the physician, a federal court in the state said. Sherman Sorensen’s second amended complaint alleged enough facts to…
London firm on standby to test therapeutics for COVID19 notifies volunteers about March attack by Maze Team
Hammersmith Medicines Research (HMR) in London takes pride in their record as specialists in pharmacology phase 1 and early phase 2 clinical trials — the kinds of trials that are needed before new medications can be approved for use by the public — and the kinds of trials that will be needed if new therapeutics…
Delaware urology practice hit with ransomware in January
On March 27, Brandywine Urology Consultants in Delaware began notifying the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and their patients about a ransomware attack. The attack occurred on January 25, and the practice became aware of it on January 27. Importantly, they state that the electronic medical records system (“EMR”) was not attacked…
WI: EVERSANA reports breach of protected health information that occurred in 2019
EVERSANA, a global commercial services provider to healthcare entities, has disclosed a data breach that occurred between between April 1 and July 3, 2019. The breach reportedly affected patient data stored in a legacy technology environment, which has since been updated. According to their notification, “Upon notification of unusual email activity, the firm immediately conducted…
Criminal investigation launched into breach of confidential patient records at Rand Memorial Hospital
The Public Hospitals Authority for the Bahamas issued the following: The Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) has launched a criminal investigation into the leak and dissemination on social media of a purported confidential document pertaining to clients of the Grand Bahama Health Services. The PHA has been assured that the matter which is now in the…