As previously reported on this site, a file cabinet containing paper records on New Jersey and Pennsylvania policy holders had been found by the side of the road in Connecticut. Aetna reported the incident to HHS last week, indicating that 6,372 policy holders were affected (in contrast to earlier reports variously indicating 4,900 or 5,000)….
Category: Health Data
St. Al’s missing data tapes with employees’ personal info
Add Saint Alphonsus employees to those affected by the backup tape lost by Mercer reported previously on this site. KTVB reports: Approximately 1,000 current and former Saint Alphonsus employees are being notified that a computer back-up tape containing their personal information has gone missing. Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center and its parent company Trinity Health…
Shred, shred, shred!
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services reports all breaches affecting more than 500 individuals reported by covered entities. This past week, HHS added a new report to their listing: Medina County OB/GYN Associates in Ohio reported that on June 13, the paper records of 1200 patients were improperly disposed of. There is no…
Health Net Settlement Leaves Physicians Unsettled
Cathryn J. Prince reports: Insurance giant Health Net’s historic settlement over a security breach leaves some area physicians unsettled. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced a settlement with Health Net and its affiliates for failing to secure private patient medical records and financial information on nearly 500,000 Connecticut patients. However, the settlement doesn’t address the breach…
Lawyer: Patients notified about misplaced records
Amanda Chan reports the follow-up to an incident previously covered on PHIprivacy.net: The Charlotte psychologist whose patient records were discovered at a county recycling facility last month contacted 1,590 of his patients via letter to inform them of the incident on Friday, his lawyer said. Ervin Batchelor, owner of Carolina Center for Development and Rehabilitation,…
AZ: Center for Neurosciences patient information breached
Another follow-up on a previously noted breach, although in this case, our first awareness of the breach was due to its report on HHS’s web site. HHS’s logs indicate that the theft of the computer was reported to HHS on March 4, 2010. From KVOA: The Center for Neurosciences has made contact with almost all…