From the this-doesn’t-sound-good dept.: Avia Dental Plan was notified by the U.S. Secret Service that it was investigating the theft of password information that permitted access to Avia Dental Plan members’ personal information including names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security Numbers, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and credit card information. In some cases, members’ dependents’…
Category: Health Data
NC: High Point hospital system uncovers insider breach involving patient information
The following is a substitute notice from High Point Regional Health System published in the News & Record: High Point Regional Health System officials said they uncovered a breach involving protected patient information. Hospital representatives became aware early last month of “the possibility of improper use” of confidential information by a former employee of Premier Imaging…
Lawsuit against Tufts Medical Center for privacy breach dropped
A lawsuit against Tufts University Medical Center and one of its doctors, mentioned previously on this blog, has been dropped. Chelsea Conaboy reports: A woman who sued Tufts Medical Center and a doctor at the hospital, alleging that they violated her privacy by faxing medical records to her workplace, has agreed to drop the case….
Updating some previously reported breaches
HHS has updated its breach tool, which allows me to update a few previously reported breaches: The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound breach, involving a stolen a laptop, affected 10,345. RxAmerica, named in mailing error glitch that affected Accendo Insurance and Molina Medicare, was also named by Windsor Health Plan in Tennessee in their report to HHS….
Muir Orthopaedic Specialists notify 1,800 patients of stolen binder
Muir Orthopaedic Specialists in Walnut Creek, California, notified 1,800 patients following the July 27 theft of records. The incident, reported to HHS, was also described on the group’s web site in a notice addressed to Dr. Moorthy’s surgical patients between August 2004 and July 2011: On July 27, property of Muir Orthopaedic Specialists was stolen…
Stolen computer contained Henry Ford Health System patient information
Henry Ford Health System in Michigan notified HHS that a computer stolen in August contained protected health information on 520 patients. In an October 10, 2011 statement on their web site, they writ Required Substitute Notice: Infectious Diseases Patients’ Health Information Compromised PATIENT HOTLINE NUMBER: (866) 523-6770 Oct. 10, 2011 Henry Ford Health System is…