Eastern Health Authority in Newfoundland has reported a second breach in three months. This one involves the theft of a physician’s briefcase. Their statement: June 8, 2016 – St. John’s, NL: Eastern Health advised today that it has experienced an accidental breach of privacy of 34 of its patients. The accidental breach occurred when a physician’s car…
Category: Health Data
House Energy And Commerce Committee Reviews Cybersecurity Practices At HHS
King & Spalding write: On May 25, 2016, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a hearing to examine the Department of Health and Human Services’ (“HHS”) cybersecurity responsibilities. The hearing focused on legislation that would create a new office within HHS, the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (“CISO”), consolidating information…
ERISA and Cybersecurity
Larry Goldstein of McGuireWoods LLP writes: Employee benefit plan data stored online may include participants’ names and Social Security numbers, account information and protected health information (PHI), all of which are inviting targets for hackers. Highly-publicized data breaches in recent years have called attention to the obligations of benefit plan administrators (typically the employers sponsoring…
Low-tech break-in results in breach notification in Phoenix
The administrative offices of Mountain Park Health Center in Phoenix was burglarized on March 22nd. Burglars rifled through the contents of locked file cabinets containing personnel information, but none of the contents were stolen. The kinds of employee information in the files included names, addresses, telephone numbers, SSN, dates of birth, and limited financial information. Through…
Loyola University Medical Center Notice of Privacy Breach
This notice is provided by Loyola University Medical Center concerning a privacy incident affecting some of its patients. On April 5, 2016, Loyola University Medical Center learned that a project that occurred in February, 2016 undertaken to acquire accurate addresses may have resulted in the release of billing statements to certain unverified addresses. The billing…
MI: Patient info at 2 ProMedica hospitals breached
Elena Saavedra Buckley report: Private medical records of 3,472 patients at two ProMedica hospitals in Michigan were inappropriately breached by seven employees, Julie Yaroch, the health system’s president at both hospitals, told The Blade on Friday night. The patients’ names, birth dates, medications, and clinical information from acute care services were accessed at ProMedica Bixby…