Seen on NWSource, this substitute notice: NOTICE OF SECURITY BREACH ORTHOPEDIC PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES On April, 1, 2013, a laptop and ten patient files were stolen during a car break-in. The patient files were subsequently recovered. However, information regarding some patients of Orthopedic Physician Associates, a division of Proliance Surgeons, may have been compromised by this…
Category: Health Data
Life Flight informs patients of possible confidential information breach
Wendy Leonard reports: Patients flown by Life Flight helicopters during at least three months of 2004 were advised Friday that their personal information may have been compromised. The information, collected from patients in April, May and June of that year, was inadvertently put on an employee website where it may have been accessed by individuals…
NY: Upstate University Hospital notified 283 patients after portable device with PHI stolen
Seen on YNN: A portable electronic device containing personal medical information has been stolen from Upstate University Hospital. The hospital notified 283 patients that their information may be compromised. Information on the device may have included patients’ names, date of birth, hospital medical record number, and diagnosis. The device does not include patients’ Social Security…
OH: Solon dentist charged with illegal use of state database
Here’s something that I stumbled across while researching something else. Sun News Staff reports: A Solon dentist was indicted by a Cuyahoga County grand jury earlier this month for looking up personal information on an ex-girlfriend using the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy database. Between March 10 and Dec. 26, 2012, Dr. Fred Glick, 55,…
Florida women sentenced in tax refund fraud case; bought patients' identity information
Two identity thieves involved in the South Miami Hospital breach noted previously on this blog have been sentenced. The breach had resulted in tax refund fraud for a number of the hospital’s patients. The Sun Sentinel reports Alci Bonannee was sentenced to more than 26 years behind bars and Sonyini Clay was sentenced to 10 years in…
UK: GP practice in County Armagh warned after patients’ details compromised following email attack
A GP practice in County Armagh has signed an undertaking to improve the security of patients’ information following a breach of the Data Protection Act investigated by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The breach was caused when a free web-based email account used by the Burnett Practice to inform patients of upcoming smear tests appointments…