Category: Health Data

Because of the number of patients involved, we won’t see this on HHS’s breach tool, but it serves as a useful reminder that the risk of ID theft is everywhere, still: A dermatologist at 755 Boardman Canfield Road told police someone forced open a box that holds lab specimens outside the rear door of his…

Gulf Coast Health Care Services  in Florida suffered a network compromise on August 17 that reportedly affected 13,000 patients. The incident was reported to HHS as “Theft, UnauthorizedAccess/Disclosure, Hacking/IT Incident”,Network Server.  I really wish HHS would refine their response categories. And no, no media coverage to  be found at this point and no notice on…

Alexander J. Tikhtman, M.D. of Kentucky notified HHS that 2,376 patients had information on a device lost on August 15th. Once again, I can find no substitute notice nor any statement on the web site of Baptist Physicians Lexington. Dr. Tikhtman is associated with Baptist Neurology Consultants. If anyone spots one, please let me know…

The breach involving missing backup tapes at Women & Infants Hospital was reported to HHS as affecting 14,004 patients.

More than 100,000 patients who take drugs to prevent blood clots are at risk of identity theft. An employee of Alere Home Monitoring, Inc. had the patient data on a laptop that was stolen. The computer file contained the names, Social Security numbers, addresses and diagnoses of patients who take anticoagulant drugs such as warfarin…

I’ve previously covered a privacy breach involving an activist veterans’ medical records. I was somewhat disturbed to read that the investigation into the breach has been shut down. Murray Brewster reports: An investigation by Canada’s veterans ombudsman into a controversial breach of privacy was quietly shut down last year on the instructions of Veterans Affairs…