Dan Bowman reports on a new report by Redspin that analyzed breaches reported to HHS: According to the report, nearly 40 percent of all major PHI breaches occurred on a laptop or other portable media device, a problem the authors say isn’t likely to go away anytime soon. […] In the last year alone, data…
Category: Health Data
Follow-up: Birmingham woman sentenced to 39 months in prison in Trinity Medical Center records theft
There’s a follow-up to a case previously noted on this blog where a woman hopped over a counter at Trinity Medical Center (formerly known as Montclair Baptist Medical Center) and stole logs with patient information. Kent Faulk reports: A Birmingham woman, who had pleaded guilty in the theft, from Trinity Medical Center, of records that contained…
IU Health Goshen Hospital notifies applicants and patients that data may have been accessed
AP reports that Indiana University Health Goshen is notifying more than 12,800 job applicants and patients that their personal information may have been obtained illegally through a computer virus. Hospital spokeswoman Melanie McDonald says the virus was discovered Dec. 22. An internet security company hired by the hospital was not able to determine whether any information was accessed,…
Auditors claim inmates had access to patient Social Security numbers
Tricia Bishop reports: A Maryland corrections division that provides inmate labor has backed out of a data entry contract with the health department after state auditors found that prisoners had access to some patients’ personal information, which was supposed to have been redacted from documents, but occasionally wasn’t. The findings were included in a Legislative…
Patient’s records found outside Aberdeen hospital
Niamh Burns reports: An investigation is under way after patient records were left lying outside Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Loose sheets containing personal information about a patient’s medical history were found in the back of a wheelchair at an Aberdeen Royal Infirmary side entrance. Read more on Evening Express.
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine notifying patients after flash drive stolen from pathologist's car
The Miami Herald reports that U. of Miami is notifying 1,219 patients after a flash drive with unencrypted patient data was stolen from a pathologist’s car in November. From the FAQ on the breach: What Happened? On November 24, 2011 a vehicle belonging to a Pathologist from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine…