Matthew Renda reports: A federal judge denied Anthem’s request for access to computers of former customers who accuse the insurance giant of failing to protect their personal information in an enormous data breach last year. Anthem filed a motion seeking permission to access plaintiffs’ computers, smartphones and tablets to image and copy them to determine…
Category: Health Data
Mental health records sent to N.S. spa in error over last decade
Yvonne Colbert reports: A Bedford, N.S., woman has spent more than a decade trying to plug a privacy breach that has resulted in personal mental health records being faxed to her business, and has turned to CBC News in an effort to get the faxes to stop. Over the years, Lisa Belanger estimates she’s received dozens…
Ca: Co-workers irate after Powell River nurse who snooped in medical files gets job back
If you think it’s “excessive” to fire an employee for snooping in patients’ records, then you don’t get the importance of medical privacy. And for a union representing healthcare workers to try to claim that an employee shouldn’t be fired for repeated snooping just because others hadn’t been fired is, well…. disgraceful. What has happened…
NM: Northern Navajo Medical Center patient information turns up in NM storage units
AP reports: A former employee at a northwestern New Mexico hospital walked off with information on nearly 7,500 patients, hospital officials said. Documents in cardboard boxes turned up in storage units near Farmington. They were taken from the Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock last fall without authorization, officials said. Read more on KOAT. Notification…
Hackers broke into hospitals despite software flaw warnings
Update: MedStar subsequently denied this report. See Ars Technica’s coverage of their response. Original story: Tami Abdollah reports: The hackers who seriously disrupted operations at a large hospital chain recently and held some data hostage broke into a computer server left vulnerable despite urgent public warnings since at least 2007 that it needed to be…
Metropolitan Jewish Health System notifies members and patients of phishing incident
Notice Regarding Phishing Email Incident Metropolitan Jewish Health System, Inc. and its participating agencies and programs (including Menorah Home and Hospital for the Aged and Infirm d/b/a Menorah Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care; Metropolitan Jewish Home Care, Inc. d/b/a MJHS Home Care; MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care, Inc.; Institute for Applied Gerontology d/b/a MJHS…