Category: Health Data

Christine Metz reports: Lawrence Memorial Hospital officials anticipate there will be a federal investigation into a security breach that potentially compromised the financial information of more than 8,000 of its patients. That investigation could result in a $25,000 fine from the U.S. Office of Civil Rights, which is the regulatory agency that oversees patient privacy…

Statement from Sutter Health today: Sutter Physicians Services (SPS) and Sutter Medical Foundation (SMF) — two affiliates within the Sutter Health network of care — announced the theft of a company-issued password-protected unencrypted desktop computer from SMF’s administrative offices in Sacramento the weekend of Oct. 15, 2011. Following discovery of the theft, Sutter Health immediately…

Nora Muchanic of WPVI reports that a distraught New Jersey mother is fighting for legislation that would spare others the anguish she experienced when a first responder uploaded crash photos of her daughter’s accident online before she even knew that her daughter had been in a fatal crash. Cathy Bates, 40, was killed in a…

Berkeley HeartLab (a Celera business) notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that in late September of this year, it  learned that a former employee had accessed patient data in “2008 and/or 2009.”  The employee subsequently went to work for an unnamed competitor, and BHL believes that the employee took the data for competitive purposes…