Category: Health Data

Not the first time we’ve seen a breach like this and likely, it won’t be the last: Barrels of X-ray film set to be destroyed were stolen from Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore by a man posing as a vendor employee, police said. According to a Baltimore City police report, officers were called to the…

Last month I noted a breach involving AssureCare Risk Management (ARM) that affected employees and their dependents at Reznick Group.  ARM had notified Reznick that there had been a series of attempted network intrusions coming from IPs overseas and even domestically.  In response to the intrusions, ARM contracted with Kroll to investigate the attacks that…

Jay Cline writes: The Eli Lilly employee whose programming glitch exposed the e-mail addresses of almost 700 Prozac users to each other didn’t know he was making history. Since that day in June 2001, hundreds more US healthcare organizations have reported medical-data breaches. As a result of those reports, federal and state health agencies have…

Tim Miller reports: A mix-up from a mail sorting machine is leaving some ProMedica patients worried about the security of their personal information. Saturday morning, Maria Rodriguez opened a letter from ProMedica, which said she may be eligible for financial assistance to pay her bill at Flower Hospital. She goes there for blood tests to…

Keoki Kerr reports: KITV 4 News has learned prosecutors and police are trying to bring criminal charges against a Honolulu police officer who posted a hospital-bed photograph of an alleged thief on his Facebook page. The Honolulu Police Department began an internal affairs investigation after KITV 4 News notified the department of the photo Monday….

Kimberly Leonard reports: Only two state attorneys general have pursued the authority Congress gave them two years ago to prosecute privacy and security breaches of health information — despite training from federal agencies and a consensus among privacy groups that enforcement needs to improve. […] Experts blame a variety of factors for the apparent disinterest…