WKOW reports: Officials with Dean Health Plan say protected health data for nearly 1,000 members may have been breached after some documents sent to a bank were lost in transit. They say the affected documents included member identification numbers, member names, and procedure codes – no Social Security numbers or other financial information. Read…
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TX: Employee with “retaliatory agenda” stole potentially 16,000 children’s medical records
HIPAA Journal reports: An investigation conducted by Children’s Medical Clinics of East Texas has revealed a former employee took copies of children’s medical records and disclosed them to a third party. According to the breach report posted on the healthcare provider’s website, the privacy breach was caused by an individual with “a retaliatory agenda against…
E-health opt-out records a ‘huge invasion of privacy’
Corinne Reichert reports: The Australian Privacy Foundation has accused the Senate of being “dangerously naive” in thinking that opt-out e-health records could be secured against breaches of privacy. Bernard Robertson-Dunn, a member of the Privacy Foundation who has also constructed IT systems for several government departments, said it is “patently absurd” for the Senate inquiry…
U. of Cincinnati Medical Center not liable for employee’s Facebook post on a patient’s STD (updated)
Kevin Grasha has an update on a breach previously noted on this site. University of Cincinnati Medical Center can’t be sued after an employee leaked private medical records about a patient who had syphilis, a judge ruled Monday. The patient, a woman in her early 20s, filed the lawsuit last year. A screen shot of the…
Former North Bend Medical Center employee pleads guilty to identity theft
The World reports: Hundreds of charges against a former North Bend Medical Center employee were whittled down to 33, and she eventually pleaded guilty to 17. On April 5, 39-year-old Sarah Sluder was hit with more than 100 charges of tampering with drug records and more than 100 charges of forgery and aggravated identity theft when she…
Excellus hack: why so long to detect it, members ask
Steve Orr has a follow-up on the Excellus BlueCross BlueShield data breach that was disclosed in September, but the scant details still available will doubtless continue to frustrate those who want to know how the breach occurred and why it took almost 20 months for Excellus to detect it. And the available facts serve as…