As I’ve often noted on PogoWasRight.org, student health records are generally covered under FERPA, not HIPAA. When a school district provides a health center, however, the student’s health records may be covered by HIPAA, as seems to be the case with the St. Martin Parish School Based Health Centers in Louisiana. They notified HHS last…
Category: Theft
Laptops stolen from National Seating and Mobility contained some patient information
National Seating and Mobility notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on June 12 of an incident that occurred on April 14, 2015 when two laptops, a smartphone, a backpack, and a briefcase were stolen from two employees’ locked work vans in Atlanta, Georgia. The incidents were immediately reported to the police and NSM was…
Shorter University data breach lawsuit advances
Oops – found this one sitting in drafts folder. I should have posted it two weeks ago. Law360 reports: A Georgia federal judge on Thursday trimmed breach of contract and negligent misrepresentation claims from a proposed putative class action over the theft of student medical data at a state university, but refused to let the…
NH: Stolen laptop contained student information from Monadnock Regional School District
On June 5, Monadnock Regional School District nofitied the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a laptop stolen from an employee’s residence contained unencrypted information on 54 students. The employee was authorized to take work home. Reading further into the letter, however, it appears that the laptop was stolen from the employee’s vehicle, not their…
NY: 18,000 North Shore University Hospital- LIJ patients notified 8 months after data theft at business associate’s offices
Candic Ruud reports: The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is warning about 18,000 patients that their personal, health and insurance information is at risk due to a potential data breach. Five laptops were stolen last September from the offices of Global Care Delivery, a Texas-based firm that contracted with North Shore-LIJ and other providers…
FL: Success 4 Kids & Families notifies clients of stolen laptop
Success 4 Kids & Families Notifies Individuals of Possible Data Disclosure Tampa, FL – On April 5, 2015, Success 4 Kids & Families (“S4KF”) learned that a password-protected laptop computer containing its clients’ limited protected health information had been stolen from the vehicle of one of its employees. S4KF takes the privacy and security of its clients’…