From Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration, Dec. 21: HIPAA Notice of Improper Disposal of Protected Health Information. The Agency for Health Care Administration has determined that certain inspection records which may contain protected health information were improperly disposed of on November 12, 2015. On November 13, 2015, the Agency discovered that old inspection records of…
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UK: Croydon Health Services NHS Trust gets wrist slapped by ICO over breach
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Croydon Health Services NHS Trust. This follows an incident where correspondence giving the outcome of a patient complaint had been misaddressed resulting in sensitive personal data being sent to an unintended recipient. On investigation the ICO…
New Jersey Psychology Practice Revealed Patients’ Mental Disorders in Debt Lawsuits
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Dec. 23, 2015, 5 a.m. This story was co-published with The New York Times. When a New Jersey lawyer named Philip received legal papers last year informing him that his former psychologist’s practice was suing him over an unpaid bill, he was initially upset they could not work out a payment…
HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Round Rock notifies 1,359 patients whose PHI was on laptop stolen from employee’s car
ROUND ROCK, Texas – HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Round Rock, previously Reliant Rehabilitation Hospital Central Texas, is currently notifying potentially affected individuals that a laptop containing unsecured protected health information was stolen from the trunk of an employee’s vehicle on or around Oct. 21, 2015. The information on the laptop varied by individual but may have…
VA: E-mail error exposes students’ personal information to other students
Add Thomas Nelson Community College to the list of colleges and universities disclosing breaches in 2015. The college learned on December 9, 2015, that on December 8, 2015, confidential student information including name, address, phone number, Social Security number, student identification number, date of birth, immunization dates, background check results (no offenses listed), grades, and student progress indicators were…
Misconfigured database may have exposed 1.5 million individuals’ PHI: researcher (UPDATE2)
Alliance Health is a technology company that owns and operates a group of condition-specific social communities with over 1.5 million registered members. Their 29 communities include conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, Crohn’s, asthma, allergies, and HIV, but also includes mental health conditions such as ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and anxiety disorders. To join a community, the member is…