Category: Health Data

Erin McCann has a follow-up to a concerning report I noted here in March that involves the IRS’s seizure of 60 million records containing PHI of 10 million people from an unnamed company. McCann reports that the company has since been identified as Three Rivers Provider Network. As previously reported, the incident related to an IRS…

WALB is just all over a breach involving Phoebe Putney Hospital in Georgia that was disclosed yesterday. Today, WALB reports that two employees have been fired over the breach, which the hospital still hasn’t described as a theft: Phoebe officials say a computer forensics investigation showed only 13 people’s social security numbers were recorded on that…

The remainder of today’s HHS update consists of breaches I did not previously cover on this blog. I’ve added details where I can find them. If there are no details, it means I looked, but couldn’t find anything yet. If you can add/provide details, please e-mail this site. Metcare of Florida, Inc reported that 2,557 were…

Working through the latest updates to HHS’s breach tool, the following are  incidents where we already knew something about the breach.  Once again, some of these entries refer to breaches that occurred in 2012, and I have no idea why HHS didn’t post these publicly before now. Links are to previous coverage on this blog…

Friday afternoon and HHS has added dozens of new updates/revisions to the breach tool – after adding dozens more during the week? Yikes. As before, some of them appear to be older incidents that had never been posted publicly while others are more recent. One change that I noted immediately is that they’ve now organized…

There’s a follow-up to a breach lawsuit involving an employee of Guthrie Health System who shared a patients’ sensitive medical information with a third party – and privacy advocates will not be happy. As I first noted in March 2011, “John Doe” sued Guthrie Health System after a nurse sent embarrassing text messages about his…