Pachico A. Seares reports: WHEN Dr. Wyben Briones owned up the profession’s mantra of confidentiality to news reporters more than 10 years ago, the local medical community was stung with the embarrassment over the “rectum canister scandal.” A video clip was passed from phone to phone and uploaded on YouTube, showing doctors and nurses at…
Category: Health Data
Piles of Southside Medical Center patients’ confidential medical records found outside the Atlanta clinic
Michael Seiden reports: Piles of partially burned medical records were discovered across the street from a metro Atlanta medical center, Channel 2 Action News has learned. Southside Medical Clinic said they have no idea how the records got there. A viewer alerted Channel 2’s Michael Seiden to the issue in a parking lot across the street from…
NZ: Ministry for Children forced to apologize after social worker tries to access private medical records
TVNZ reports: The Ministry for Children, Oranga Tamariki, has been forced to apologise to a foster family after one of its social workers tried to access their private medical records. The incident occurred after a foster child tried to attack them with a knife. However, the family says the attempted privacy breach has been even…
Memorial Hospital at Gulfport phishing incident exposed 30,000 patients’ information
Anita Lee reports: Memorial Hospital is offering free credit monitoring and identify protection services to a “limited number” of patients whose Social Security numbers, health-insurance information and other personal details were part of an employee email account that a third party accessed. Janet Stuart, the hospital’s manager of marketing and communications, said the email account…
AltaMed, BlueShield of California notify patients and regulators after breach at Sharecare Health Data Services
From their press release, and I’ll meet you on the other side: AltaMed Health Services Corporation (“AltaMed”) has become aware of a data security incident experienced by its business associate, Sharecare Health Data Services (“SHDS”), that may have involved the personal and protected health information of some of its patients. AltaMed has sent notification letters…
Hampton Roads Community Health Center notifies patients after discovering server compromise
Geena Arevalo reports that Hampton Roads Community Health Center has disclosed that in December, it discovered that its server with (unencrypted) patient data had been compromised. The center did not disclose the number affected nor how the attack occurred (of course, they may not know that yet), but a notice posted on the center’s web site…