Three Kaiser units – Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, Inc of Northern California, Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, Inc of Southern California, and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest – have been notifying members after an error exposed some members’ protected health information for a brief period. Based on reports to HHS, 8,020 members have been notified that for approximately two hours during…
Category: Health Data
Court grants stay in FTC v. LabMD
The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has granted LabMD’s request for a stay of FTC’s final order in FTC v. LabMD. From the opinion: First, it is not clear that a reasonable interpretation of § 45(n) includes intangible harms like those that the FTC found in this case. As the FTC Opinion said, § 45(n)…
Broward Health patient data stolen for fraud ring
Dan Christensen reports: For the second time in three years, a data breach at Broward Health has caused the release of personal patient information in what one district executive called “a ring of thugs.” Broward Health disclosed the breach on its website last month, saying it was advised by “law enforcement authorities” on May 12…
Personal information for thousands of Colorado vets may have been compromised
KKTV reports: More than 2,100 Colorado veterans may have had their personal information compromised, the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System (ECHCS) said Wednesday. At risk are the veterans’ names, the last four digits of their Social Security number and their diagnoses. According to the ECHCS, the information may have been compromised when a VA…
Ca: Eastern Health ordered to tighten procedures after patient privacy breach
CBC News reports: Newfoundland and Labrador’s privacy commissioner is ordering Eastern Health to remind staff to log out of computer programs, following an investigation of a privacy breach. Information and Privacy Commissioner Donovan Molloy’s report describes the May 28, 2015 incident as an “intentional breach of patient information.” The report says an unknown person inappropriately accessed and printed personal health information…
UK: Missing GP records in Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk ‘total 9,000’
Nikki Fox reports: More than 9,000 patients’ records in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex have gone missing since a private firm took on transferring files, a BBC survey shows. Capita took on the national contract from the NHS for delivering patients’ records, when people move from one GP to another, in March. The survey of 78 GP…