Diane Crocker reports: The woman alleged to have inappropriately accessed the files of over 1,000 people while employed as a clerk with Western Health at Western Memorial Regional Hospital in Corner Brook has been removed as a defendant in a class-action lawsuit over the privacy breach. That leaves Western Health as the sole defendant in…
Category: Health Data
FTC complaint against LabMD could serve as guidance to businesses on data security
The Federal Trade Commission has released a provisionally redacted public version of its complaint against LabMD (PHIprivacy.net’s coverage of LabMD linked here). The complaint provides what could be useful guidance as to what types of practices the FTC considers to be problematic practices under the Act: 10. At all relevant times, respondent engaged in a number of…
Errant e-mail creates security breach at MNsure
And we’re off and running with health insurance exchanges. Jackie Crosby reports: A MNsure employee accidentally sent an e-mail file to an Apple Valley insurance broker’s office on Thursday that contained Social Security numbers, names, business addresses and other identifying information on more than 2,400 insurance agents. An official at MNsure, the state’s new online health insurance exchange, acknowledged it…
FTC reveals provisionally redacted complaint against LabMD
The Federal Trade Commission has released a provisionally redacted public version of its complaint against LabMD (PHIprivacy.net’s coverage of LabMD linked here). Intriguingly, the complaint cites another situation that appears to be unrelated to the “1718 file” incident: In October 2012, the Sacramento, California Police Department found more than 35 Day Sheets and a small…
Kaiser Permanente notifies members after e-mail attachment error
Kaiser Permanente has begun notifying some of its members of a privacy breach. In a letter dated September 10, they write that an electronic file relating to a pilot Wellness Screening competition at the East End Complex was accidentally e-mailed by a Kaiser Permanente employee to a member of the pilot planning team on May…
Medical ID theft rates, costs continue to climb as consumers fail to protect their info or to report crime – Report
Medical identity theft affected about 1.84 million adults or their family members this year at a projected out-of-pocket cost to the victims of over $12 billion, according to a new report released today. The Medical Identity Fraud Alliance, with support from ID Experts, recently sponsored a survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute. The researchers surveyed 788 adults…