From KARK4: The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock is investigating a breach of information involving thousands of patients. UAMS officials say patients affected were interventional radiology patients seen at UAMS during 2009, 2010 and 2011. The breach happened when a document sent to an individual outside of UAMS for analysis…
Category: Health Data
Don't tell me about "lessons learned" when breaches are frequent and measured in the hundreds of thousands at a time
In the last month or so, we’ve seen breaches of healthcare records where each breach is measured in the hundreds of thousands. There was the Utah Dept of Health breach, the South Carolina Dept. of Health and Human Services breach, and the Emory Healthcare System breach. But it’s not just here that huge breaches involving…
OR: Stolen computer jeopardizes medical records
Ty Steele of KVAL in Oregon reports: Patients of a Eugene medical clinic are worried about protecting their identities after a security breach. Nancy Shepherd of Cottage Grove said her parents, both of whom are in their late 70s, received a troubling notice from the office of Dr. Rex Smith, a podiatrist. “Important security and…
California's breach page increases our awareness of breaches
Now that California is also posting breach reports online, I’m finding out about breaches in the healthcare sector that I’ve not seen in the news or on HHS’s breach tool. As one example, Perry Dental sent notification letters about a burglary that occurred February 16: We are contacting you about a recent burglary in our…
Over 200,000 confidential Medicaid records improperly acquired
No, it’s not Utah, but I can understand why you’d think that. The headline is referring to a totally different Medicaid breach – this one in South Carolina. Jeffrey Collins of Associated Press reports: The agency that runs South Carolina’s Medicaid program says an employee improperly transferred information about more than 228,000 people to a…
Emory Healthcare notifies individuals regarding missing data
Emory Healthcare has determined that 10 backup discs containing information on surgical patients treated between September 1990 and April 2007 are missing from a storage location at Emory University Hospital. As soon as it was discovered that the discs were missing, an extensive search and investigation was initiated and is continuing. It is important to…