There’s an update to a case previously noted on this site. Scott J. Croteau reports: A former Tufts Health Plan employee was sentenced in federal court after she stole the personal information of more than 8,700 customers and gave them to her brother and another man involved in a Social Security and tax refund scheme….
Category: Health Data
Children’s Mercy Hospital notifies parents after physician error exposes health information
Sometimes your policies are fine, but a well-meaning employee still manages to violate them. Consider this notification from Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri: Kansas City, Mo. – May 19, 2017 – Children’s Mercy’s information security department recently discovered an unauthorized website that contained certain patient information. The information had been collected by one…
Trios Health fires employee over records breach, hundreds of patients affected
Sara Schilling reports: A Trios Health employee improperly accessed the electronic medical records of about 600 patients over 3 1/2 years, the Kennewick health system announced Tuesday morning. The records may have included information related to Trios Health visits, not including visits to outpatient Trios Medical Group providers, as well as diagnoses, demographic information such…
Ca: ‘Anomaly’ caused OHIP privacy breach
The province plans to resume mailing health card renewal notices more than a month after a printing “anomaly” caused a privacy breach. Incorrectly printed forms resulted in the personal information for thousands of children being mailed to strangers in April. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services, Harry Malhi, said in an…
Manitoba nurse fined $1,000 for privacy breach
Jane Gerster reports: A Manitoba nurse has been fined $1,000 for inappropriately accessing confidential patient information, the latest in a string of privacy breaches in recent years. The College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba isn’t releasing details about what information the female nurse looked at or why, but makes clear in a written decision posted…
GA: Investigation into phishing attack at Augusta University
Miya Payton reports: Augusta University says a phishing attack hit faculty email accounts containing the health information of patients. A spokesperson for A-U confirms less than one percent of patients are impacted by the security breach. Officials say an unauthorized third party broke into the medical faculty email accounts. Read more on Fox54.