Sig Christenson fills in some details on a breach that occurred last year and was first revealed on HHS‘s web site in February: Brooke Army Medical Center late Tuesday revealed that the personal health records of 1,272 patients may have been compromised because of a car break-in. The hospital reported that a three-ring Army binder…
Category: Health Data
Two breaches involving unauthorized access lead to notification
Two breaches involving unauthorized access have led to notifications in recent weeks. In the first, Reliant Rehabilitation Hospital of North Houston notified HHS that there had been a breach involving its business associate, Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. According to the HHS listing, 763 individuals were affected by unauthorized access of email. The breach occurred…
Mass. Eye and Ear Alerts Patients to Laptop Theft and Data Breach
On February 19, 2010, a laptop belonging to a physician affiliated with the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary was stolen while the physician was lecturing in South Korea. The laptop belonged to Dr. Robert Levine, a neurologist with a particular focus on ringing in the ears, or tinnitus. To date, Mass. Eye and Ear has…
Affinity Health Plan notifies over 409,000 of breach
Cross-posted from phiprivacy.net: On April 5, Affinity Health Plan issued a press release concerning a “potential security breach” of customer, provider, and staff personal information. According to the release, Affinity was informed on March 17 that an office copier leased previously by it and since returned to the leasing company might contain personal information on…
Mass. Eye and Ear Alerts Patients to Laptop Theft and Data Breach
On February 19, 2010, a laptop belonging to a physician affiliated with the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary was stolen while the physician was lecturing in South Korea. The laptop belonged to Dr. Robert Levine, a neurologist with a particular focus on ringing in the ears, or tinnitus. To date, Mass. Eye and Ear has…
Hospital board mum on possible privacy violations
Tim Lockette reports: Officials at Regional Medical Center [in Anniston, Alabama] have completed their first look into possible violations of patient privacy at the hospital. But so far, the results of that investigation are, well, private. “This is a peer review document, and as such it is not something we can release to the public,”…