Category: Health Data

I was just reading through the VA’s Monthly Report to Congress of Data Incidents for the period Nov 29, 2010 – Jan 2, 2010.  Apart from the usual reports about mis-mailings and the like, I noticed two incidents worth noting here: Incident Summary – White River Junction, VT: A Dartmouth owned thin client device located in…

A disciplinary case out of Texas, reported on Courthouse News, raises a question as to whether there was a privacy breach by an employee of Memorial Hermann in Texas: The Commission for Lawyer Discipline wants Raymond Lamar Fisher reprimanded, suspended or disbarred. It claims a hospital reported that its patients’ rooms had received 1,009 telephone…

Homa Quazilbash of KTVZ reports that 5 desktop and laptop computers were stolen from Bend Ophthamology in a smash and grab. The practice is located in the Pilot Butte Medical Clinic in Bend. No indication of whether there was any protected health information on the computers, but it’s pretty likely that there was. As of today,…

In addition to other blog entries posted today, a recent update to HHS’s breach tool indicates three more reports that have not been reported in the media: Southern Perioperative Services, P.C. in Alabama reported that 2,000 patients had PHI on a device that was stolen on or about November 17.  Their web site is parked and…

A recent update to HHS’s breach tool indicates that Benefit Resources, Inc. in South Carolina reported a breach involving the PHI of 16,200 patients. The incident reportedly occurred on or about November 22 and was coded by HHS as the loss/other of a “portable electronic device/other.” So far I haven’t found any notice on their web…

A recent update to HHS’s breach tool indicates that the Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Azle, Texas  reported a breach involving the PHI of 9,922 patients. I did locate a breach notice on the hospital’s web site, although it was not immediately apparent from the home page, and I had to click on the “About…