Okay, so HHS decided to give me a migraine by adding no less than 37 breach incidents to its public breach tool today. I suspect, but cannot be certain, that my repeated inquiries to them about breach reports not showing up in a timely fashion – the last such inquiry a few days ago –…
Category: Health Data
MD: Employee at Good Samaritan Hospital pleads guilty to stealing patient info
Ian Duncan of the Baltimore Sun has an update on two of the defendants involved in a breach noted previously on this blog. Two women pleaded guilty Friday to using stolen medical records to open or take over credit accounts at department stores and setting up a cottage industry selling fraudulently obtained goods. Chanell Cole,…
New Mexico Oncology and Hematology Consultants notifies patients after laptop stolen from employee's office
Statement on their website: Albuquerque, New Mexico (December 31, 2013) – On November 13, 2013, New Mexico Oncology and Hematology Consultants, Ltd. (NMOHC) discovered that a laptop computer was stolen from an employee’s office. The stolen laptop computer may have contained the following types of unsecured protected health information (PHI): names, dates of birth, and…
Another University of Florida breach that flew under my radar
Stumbled across this University of Florida breach today while searching for something else: Payroll Breach Information Published: March 11th, 2013 On February 17, 2013, the University’s Privacy Office was notified that a list of social security numbers (SSN) was mistakenly released. Specifically, a payroll processing report that included SSNs was shared by means of a public…
Two University of Florida breaches in 2013 that I seem to have missed
Just stumbled across these while searching for something else and I don’t recall ever seeing them before – from UF’s web site: UF Beaches Women’s Health Specialists Lab Tests Inadvertently Sent to Baptist Medical Center Published: July 15th, 2013 The University of Florida (UF) is notifying 142 patients of the University of Florida Beaches Women’s Health…
NC DHHS: Almost 49,000 Medicaid cards with children's personal information mailed incorrectly (update 1)
Michael Biesecker of AP reports: North Carolina health officials said Friday that they had inadvertently disclosed the personal information of tens of thousands of children receiving Medicaid coverage, but were tight-lipped about precisely what caused the massive privacy breach. The state Department of Health and Human Services issued a written release saying that new Medicaid…