Category: Health Data

Providence Hospital (Michigan), like all medical facilities, is required by federal law to safeguard patients’ private information. But the hospital has sent letters alerting patients that a hard drive used for backing up data has been “lost or stolen from a locked office suite.” The hospital explained that the data included patient names, medical record…

Jeremy Finley reports: State health officials and emergency management officials are trying to determine who dumped piles of medical records and waste in an abandoned Springfield mansion. […] There are rooms filled with medical records, boxes and boxes of the most private of information, all laying alongside the medical waste, discarded like trash. It’s also…

Does anybody recognize this breach?  The information was found in Google’s cache: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Information Website FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Data Compromise Questions 1. What has happened? Patient information was inadvertently included in a software update to a website used by physicians, medical researchers and their staff. Sixteen users outside of MSKCC downloaded the…

John Muir Health, the Walnut Creek-based hospital system, said Monday it has begun notifying 5,450 patients by mail of a “potential breach of their personal and health information.” The move came after the theft two months ago of two laptop computers at the John Muir Physician Network Perinatal office in Walnut Creek, officials said April…

Almost six months after the theft of 57 hard drives from their Chattanooga facility, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is still in  the process of notifying individuals of the breach, according to an update to the new Hampshire Attorney General’s Office dated March 31 (pdf). Update: Note that as of this month, the number of individuals…