From their web site: Dear Patients: On June 27, 2016, Professional Dermatology Care, P.C. (PDC, P.C.) discovered a potential data breach of its network server. Following a comprehensive cybersecurity and forensic investigation, PDC, P.C. learned that unauthorized third parties from outside the United States may have recently accessed and obtained patient protected health information and…
Category: Health Data
Analysis of July healthcare data breaches
What kind of month was July for breaches involving health information. I counted 39 incidents reported during the month. Read Protenus’s blog for an analysis of the incidents. Update: Tom Sullivan of HealthcareITNews has a great write-up on the blog post.
More details emerge on Jefferson Medical Associates incidents
So there’s a bit more to the incidents recently disclosed by Jefferson Medical Associates that I had reported here. Now WDAM reports that it was Chris Vickery who had discovered a misconfigured database and had alerted JMA. For their part, JMA is pretty much accusing Vickery of hacking them. Here we go again…. From WDAM’s…
An Assessment of the Anthem Data Breach Litigation Rulings
David Silverman writes: [Eric’s intro: this blog post helps distill Judge Koh’s two rulings, In re Anthem Inc. Data Breach Litig., No. 15-MD-02617 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 16, 2016) (“Anthem I”) and In re Anthem Inc. Data Breach Litig., No. 15-MD-02617 (N.D. Cal. May 27, 2016) (“Anthem II”). These are complicated opinions, and I hope this post helps…
State hospital patients upset over medical data leak
Gordon Friedman reports: Patients at the Oregon State Hospital‘s maximum security ward report being upset that their private medical information was improperly shared by a hospital psychiatrist. On June 9, a psychiatrist used a cell phone to photograph a patient census sheet and accidentally sent it to six people, said Joni DeTrant, medical records director at OSH. The census…
Athens Orthopedic committed to rectifying data breach issues
One of the surgeons at Athens Orthopedic Clinic in Georgia has written an open letter to patients and the community. I would encourage everyone to read it for perspective.