Elisha Dacey reports: St. Boniface Hospital says 38 patients had their records accessed “inappropriately” over a week in March. The records were looked at between Feb. 28 and March 6 by an employee who had access to the hospital’s record system, they said. Read more on GlobalNews.ca.
Category: Health Data
MA: Medical billing service notifies patients of ransomware incident
Massachusetts-headquartered Doctors’ Management Service, Inc. provides medical billing services to physicians and hospitals. You may never have heard of them, but your hospital or physician might have provided them with your protected health information if your doctor or hospital contracts with them. This week, DMS sent notice of what they strangely describe as a “recent…
So how’s April so far?
Quick note: I haven’t been posting all the health data breaches or incidents I have already found this month, as in some cases, I’m waiting for responses from entities to my questions. But I am compiling the incidents in my worksheet that I provide to Protenus, Inc. for their analyses and freely available reports. Yesterday,…
The Lack of an Adequate HIPAA Security Risk Assessment is a Common and Costly Mistake by Healthcare Providers: What Providers Can Do Now
Erin Smith Aebel of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP writes: Health care providers and others who must comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) have specific requirements under the Security Rule to HIPAA when it comes to their maintenance of electronically held protected health information. One of those requirements is…
NJ: Ronald Snyder, M.D., Notifies patients after ransomware incident
From a press release by pediatric orthopedic surgeon Ronald Snyder, M.D.: April 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — On April 18, 2019 Ronald Snyder, M.D., (“Dr. Snyder”), announced a recent event that may have impacted the privacy of personal information relating to certain individuals. While Dr. Snyder is unaware of any attempted or actual misuse of personal information…
TX: EmCare Says Patient and Employee Personal Data Were Hacked
Jim Silver and Hailey Waller report: EmCare Inc. recently learned an unauthorized party obtained access to a number of employees’ email accounts that contained the personal information of as many as 60,000 individuals, 31,000 of which are patients, the company said in an email. On Feb. 19, the physician-services provider determined the accounts contained some…