Notice of Privacy Event at Briar Hill Management Briar Hill Management of Ridgeland, Mississippi provides management services for skilled nursing facilities in the State. The company takes resident privacy very seriously and, as part of that commitment, it is notifying all potentially affected residents of a privacy event that may impact personal health information. On…
Category: Health Data
EXCLUSIVE: Bay Sleep Clinic patients were viewable online during sleep studies
Bay Sleep Clinic (BSC) has more than one dozen locations in California offering sleep medicine diagnostic services. Their site advertises that BSC: Provides monitoring during a complete sleep cycle in our fully equipped, comfortable setting. That monitoring appears to include video monitoring of their patients who, after being wired up to monitors, attempt to sleep in one of their…
More Rehab Billing Solutions clients notify their patients of exposed PHI
Back in September, DataBreaches.net reported on an exposed MongoDB database that had been discovered by MacKeeper security researcher Chris Vickery. The database contained protected health information from tens of thousands of patients seen at dozens of clinics that were clients of EMR4All and Rehab Billing Solutions, companies owned by Todd Jones. Since that report, we have begun…
LabMD: Is the FTC’s data security joy ride finally coming to an end?
Here’s your must-read today on LabMD’s challenge to the FTC by Gus Hurwitz, who, like this blogger, has been criticizing the FTC’s over-zealous enforcement for the past three years. Unlike this blogger, however, Gus is actually a lawyer. 🙂 When LabMD prevails in the Eleventh Circuit, as I am hopeful they will, I will talk to Gus…
AU: Kingston Council emails out personal details of more than 900 people
Sam Bidey reports: Kingston Council will appoint an independent investigator after an email slip up that saw the personal details of more than 2000 people released. The council sent out the bulk email on Wednesday to more than 900 maternal and child health care clients asking them to take part in an online survey, but a…
NY: KinetoRehab Physical Therapy notifies patients of laptop theft
A physical therapy clinic in New York is notifying more than 650 patients after a laptop with protected health information was stolen. KinetoRehab Physical Therapy, PLLC learned of the theft on September 16, and although there was security footage showing the thief, police have not apprehended the thief nor recovered the laptop. “Patients who were seen…