Rick Shrum reports that no one has lost their job (yet), but a number of employees of Washington Health System in Pennsylvania have been suspended during an investigation of inappropriate access to patient records. The matter is believed to have been related to the untimely death of Kimberly Dollard, 57, of Amwell Township, on June 6….
Category: Health Data
Surgery technician accused of stealing personal information from BAMC
KSAT reports: A surgery technician is accused of taking personal information from a surgeon and other active-duty and retired military members at Brooke Army Medical Center. Abelardo Arellano, 32, was arrested after his wife found a notebook belonging to him with several people’s names, birthdays and Social Security numbers in it, authorities said. Read more…
Update: Med Associates notified 270,000 patients about hack detected in March
On June 14, medical claims processor Med Associates issued a press release notifying an unspecified number of patients of a hacking incident. The firm had become aware of unusual activity in their system on March 22. Now Brian Nearing of the Times Union has an update that indicates that more than 270,000 New York residents…
MO: Black River Medical Center notified patients whose information was potentially accessed
Black River Medical Center in Missouri has sent notification letters to an unspecified number of patients potentially affected by a phishing incident discovered in April. Here is their June 13 notice from their web site: Black River Medical Center has become aware of a potential data security incident that may have resulted in the inadvertent…
Judge rules in favor of OCR and requires a Texas cancer center to pay $4.3 million in penalties for HIPAA violations
A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) has ruled that The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MD Anderson) violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules and granted summary judgment to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on all issues, requiring…
Ca: Data breach at CarePartners
Jennifer Hamilton-McCharles reports: One of the province’s most well-known home care service providers has fallen victim of a cyber-attack. The attack has breached CarePartners‘ computer system and as a result patient and employee information held in that system, including personal health and financial information, has been inappropriately accessed, according to Ontario’s Local Health Integration Network….