Category: Health Data

The NYU School of Medicine Aging and Dementia Clinical Research Center informed HHS last week about a data breach that reportedly occurred on or about April 3 when a portable electronic device containing protected health information on 1,200 patients was lost. I cannot find any information on their site about this incident at this time…

Jeff Hansel reports that the Mayo Clinic has fired an employee for snooping into medical and financial records over a period of four years: The employee worked in the Mayo financial business unit in Arizona and once worked in Rochester. An estimated 1,700 patient records were accessed, said Mayo spokesman Chris Gade, noting the employee…

For Release: September 09, 2010 PALO ALTO, Calif. — Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford is appealing a California Department of Public Health (CDPH) penalty. The CDPH on April 23, 2010, after the self-reporting of a security incident by Packard Children’s, alerted the hospital that a fine of $250,000 was being levied as a result…

Joseph Goedert has an interesting article on Health Data Management about the South Shore Hospital breach, focusing on whether South Shore Hospital is required, under HITECH, to notify individuals by postal mail or if they can use the “substitute notice” provisions under Massachusetts law.   Goedert writes, in part: According to a new statement on…

Today Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC), and HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance (HALSA) sent a letter to David Maxwell-Jolly, Director of the California Department of Health Care Services, demanding a full explanation for the unauthorized and illegal disclosures of confidential identifying information of approximately 5,000 HIV-positive Medi-Cal recipients….