Jordan Fischer reports: Hundreds of patients’ test results went missing last month from a Community Health Network office, the hospital network announced Friday. In February, the staff at Physician Network Practice, located in the 2000 block of North Shadeland Avenue, noticed a binder with results had disappeared. The binder contained more than 600 hemoglobin and…
Category: Health Data
OCR’s Enforcement of HIPAA’s Privacy and Security Rules Continues with Robust 2014
From the I-must-have-a-different-definition-of-‘robust’ dept.: Douglas Dahl writes: With the news of the recent cyber-attack and resulting data breach at health insurance giant Anthem Inc., the buzz around data security and privacy is again high. The Anthem breach serves as a reminder to those entities subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that…
FL: Aventura Hospital and Medical Center notifies more patients of insider breach
It appears that Aventura Hospital and Medical Center in Florida is notifying additional patients of a previously disclosed breach involving patient information. On February 27, the hospital submitted a breach notification to HHS indicating that 686 patients were affected by a breach involving unauthorized access/disclosure of PHI. The breach report was submitted the same week a…
Florida Hospital discloses another insider breach
From Florida Hospital’s web site: As a valued patient, your health, safety and privacy are top concerns at Florida Hospital. Regrettably, this notice concerns an incident that may have exposed patients’ personal information to people outside our organization. We take this matter very seriously, and are offering affected patients identity theft protection and credit monitoring…
Chicago woman to plead in ID theft case involving patient information
Here’s the latest on a case previously noted on this site. Teresa Auch Schultz reports: A Chicago woman claims her boss used her Gary business to help run an identity theft ring that stole information from clients at a medical center. Montrease Young detailed her own role in the theft, as well as the role…
Feds warned Premera about security flaws before breach
Mike Baker reports: Three weeks before hackers infiltrated Premera Blue Cross, federal auditors warned the company that its network-security procedures were inadequate. Officials gave 10 recommendations for Premera to fix problems, saying some of the vulnerabilities could be exploited by hackers and expose sensitive information. Premera received the audit findings April 18 last year, according…