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….
Category: Health Data
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…
Hundreds of medical records found in Yokota servicemember's home
Seth Robson reports: YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Air Force officials have sent warnings to 593 people to be on the lookout for signs of identity theft after their medical records were found at a servicemember’s home on Yokota Air Base. The 374th Airlift Wing announced last week that the documents — which included the…
FL: I-Team: Tampa VA lost private medical photos of breast cancer patients
The I-Team has uncovered hundreds of thousands dollars’ worth of expensive equipment and property at VA hospitals in Tampa and Bay Pines has been lost or stolen in the last two years. The list includes televisions, lap tops computers, and microscopes. But the most serious loss was not the most expensive item. A camera, used…