As I’ve often noted on PogoWasRight.org, student health records are generally covered under FERPA, not HIPAA. When a school district provides a health center, however, the student’s health records may be covered by HIPAA, as seems to be the case with the St. Martin Parish School Based Health Centers in Louisiana. They notified HHS last…
Category: Health Data
NY: Montefiore Health System employee stole 12,517 patients’ information
From their web site: Montefiore Health System is notifying certain patients about a security incident involving information that was stolen by a former employee. The employee compromised the information of 12,517 patients, which included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, next of kin information, and health insurance details. The theft occurred between January 2013…
Seek and ye shall find: CareFirst notifies brokers and members of 2014 breach
Sometimes doing the right thing can be costly. In the wake of increasing attacks on health insurers (e.g., Anthem, Premera), CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield retained Mandiant to do an end-to-end assessment of their information security environment. The assessment included multiple scans to determine if there was any evidence of any attack. On April 21, 2015, Mandiant uncovered evidence…
FL: Tax Fraudster Receives 27-Year Prison Sentence; Scheme Used Stolen Patient Information
Some of the breaches mentioned in this press release had been covered on PHIprivacy.net. Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Charlene Honeywell has sentenced James Lee Cobb, III (27, Tampa) to 27 years in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity…
St. Lucie Medical Center gave patient records to wrong patient, exposing Social Security numbers
This happens all the time, all over this country.
PA: Hershey Medical Center notifies 1,801 patients of potential breach
Lancaster Online reports: Penn State Hershey Medical Center said it has notified 1,801 patients of a privacy breach, after it was discovered an employee had been working with protected health information from his home computer. Officials at the hospital said in a press release Friday afternoon that results of an extensive internal investigation give no…