Sara Schilling reports: A Trios Health employee improperly accessed the electronic medical records of about 600 patients over 3 1/2 years, the Kennewick health system announced Tuesday morning. The records may have included information related to Trios Health visits, not including visits to outpatient Trios Medical Group providers, as well as diagnoses, demographic information such…
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Ca: ‘Anomaly’ caused OHIP privacy breach
The province plans to resume mailing health card renewal notices more than a month after a printing “anomaly” caused a privacy breach. Incorrectly printed forms resulted in the personal information for thousands of children being mailed to strangers in April. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services, Harry Malhi, said in an…
Manitoba nurse fined $1,000 for privacy breach
Jane Gerster reports: A Manitoba nurse has been fined $1,000 for inappropriately accessing confidential patient information, the latest in a string of privacy breaches in recent years. The College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba isn’t releasing details about what information the female nurse looked at or why, but makes clear in a written decision posted…
GA: Investigation into phishing attack at Augusta University
Miya Payton reports: Augusta University says a phishing attack hit faculty email accounts containing the health information of patients. A spokesperson for A-U confirms less than one percent of patients are impacted by the security breach. Officials say an unauthorized third party broke into the medical faculty email accounts. Read more on Fox54.
Fast Health in Tehachapi suffers security breach
ABC23 reports: Fast Health in Tehachapi is reporting a security breach that could affect over 700 of their patients. The business says a third-party altered a code on their server, stealing the credit card information of close to 700 customers who paid bills online from January 14, 2016 to December 20, 2016. Medical information was…
Ca: Website hack exposed Prairie Mountain Health patients’ personal, medical info
The Brandon Sun reports: Personal and medical information of more than 1,000 Prairie Mountain Health patients are at risk after an internal website was hacked. The regional health authority, in a statement Friday, said they do not believe the intent of the hack was to access personal information, but conceded they cannot exclude the possibility…