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NC: CaroMont Health reveals security breach

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Dissent

Here’s another case where a breach was discovered by a routine audit. Michael Barrett reports: An unsecure email sent by a CaroMont Health employee has resulted in a possible security breach involving hundreds of patients’ personal health records. The email in question contained protected health information, including names, dates of birth, addresses, telephone numbers, medical…

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Your PII were lost in the mail – Clinical Reference Laboratory (update1)

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Dissent

Clinical Reference Laboratory provides lab tests for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance policy applicants. On September 17, they learned that a billing sent to MassMutual on September 6 with applicants’ names, dates of birth, type of lab test performed, and/or partial or full Social Security numbers had been damaged in transit with  USPS and some pages…

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CORRECTED & UPDATED: Texas Health notified patients promptly following discovery of breach

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Dissent

CORRECTION:  In response to the original post, below, I received the following e-mail from Texas Health: Good morning. Just an FYI that we did notify these patients within the 60-day timeframe. The problem is that in our efforts to keep the press release at the top of our news page and easy for people to…

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Personal laptop with unencrypted information on UCSF Medical Center patients stolen from employee's car

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Dissent

The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center issued this statement yesterday, although you’re unlikely to find it just by visiting the center’s home page: UC San Francisco is alerting some of its patients to the theft of an employee’s laptop computer that held patient information. The security of protected health information at UCSF…

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Statement from St. Mary's Janesville Hospital

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Dissent

St. Mary’s Janesville Hospital in Wisconsin, a member of SSM Health Care, posted this statement on their web site today: On August 27, 2013, we received a report that an SSM Health Care laptop was stolen from an employee’s car during a break-in. We are sincerely sorry this happened and want to provide pertinent information…

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Updates to HHS's breach tool

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Dissent

HHS has updated its public breach tool again. Let’s start with the ones we already knew about: The Wm. Jennings Bryan Dorn VAMC breach involving a laptop lost in February affected 7,405. The patient data theft involving an employee at South Shore Physicians in New York resulted in notification to 8,000, although the employee was charged with stealing 80…

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