Jessica Davis reports: The North Florida OB-GYN in Jacksonville, part of Woman’s Care Florida, recently began notifying 528,188 patients of a months-long cyber incident that potentially breached their health information. First discovered on July 27, officials said they determined certain parts of their computer systems were impacted by a cyber incident that began on or…
Category: Health Data
IN: Patient’s claim her x-rays were wrongly shared reinstated
Katie Stancombe reports: A Lake County woman whose medical records were unknowingly shared with her employer by a Community Hospital worker in Munster who took her x-rays has won a reversal of her dismissed complaint against the hospital. Amanda Henry, who received medical treatment in March 2018 at Community Hospital in Munster, was required to…
Records of 650 patients on missing computer hard drive: Alberta Health Services
The Canadian Press reports: Alberta Health Services (AHS) says a computer hard drive that contained the personal health information of about 650 patients has been missing since August. The agency says the external drive vanished from a cardiac outpatient clinical lab at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute in Edmonton. It says the disappearance could be linked to a…
Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Atlanta discloses three phishing incidents in 6 months
The Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) has had its name cross my desk a lot this past year. And that’s not a good thing. There have been five Cancer Treatment Centers of America breach notices that have been publicly disclosed since November 2018. Three of them involved the Southeastern Regional Medical Center in Atlanta,…
NE: CHI Health says ransomware incident may have exposed info of patients at Lakeside Hospital’s orthopedic clinic
Not sure how I missed this one, but I did, it seems. Note that CHI Health stands for Catholic Health Initiative. They are a non-profit organization headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. On September 28, Jessica Wade reported: A CHI Health clinic sent letters to patients Friday informing them that their personal information may have been exposed…
Ca: ‘It just makes me sick’: Shuswap patient receives someone else’s medical records
I really do not know why people are stunned any more. There have been so many reports over the years of these mismailings or giving patients other patients’ records. Why is it still a shock? Jules Knox reports: A Shuswap woman was stunned when her husband received an envelope from Interior Health with somebody else’s medical records…