Dentists Brian J. Daniels, D.D.S. and Paul R. Daniels, D.D.S. of Phoenix, Arizona recently notified 10,000 patients that a portable device stolen on March 2, contained protected health information. There is no notice on their web site other than: HIPAA Breach Information for Patients of Record Certain electronically-stored patient records were stolen on March 2,…
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Omnicare notifies almost 9,000 that their Social Security numbers and protected health information were on a stolen laptop
Omnicare Inc. of Kentucky recently notified 8,845 patients who had protected health information on a laptop that was stolen on January 19. The firm, which provides pharmaceutical care for seniors, posted a statement on their web site for those using pharmacies in North Carolina: On January 19, 2011, a laptop computer was stolen that contained…
AU: $40,000 damages for breach of privacy
Julie Robotham reports: A $40,000 damages order for misusing a mentally ill patient’s medical records has sent a strong privacy warning to hospitals. The compensation, awarded to a man who was a patient of the same public hospital where he worked [the former Northern Sydney Central Coast Area Health Service], is the maximum allowable in…
Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital breach notice
I finally tracked down an explanation for a breach entry in HHS’s breach tool that read: Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital,TX,, 654, 12/23/2010,Unknown ,Electronic Medical Record,, I had reported it on this blog last week, but here’s the undated notice that explains it: Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital is notifying our patients about a breach…
HK: Leak fear as hospital loses patient details
A flash drive containing patients’ personal details has gone missing at Queen Mary Hospital, nine months after it was stored in a ward. A clerk at the hospital’s department of pediatrics discovered the loss on Monday, and informed management the following day. The device is not encrypted or password-protected. It contains a data file with…
Too-expansive access control lands NHS Birmingham East and North in breach of the Data Protection Act
NHS Birmingham East and North (BEN) breached the Data Protection Act by failing to restrict access to files on their IT network, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced today. The breach, which was discovered by BEN on September 8, led to some NHS staff at their own Trust and two other NHS Trusts nearby potentially…