Over the weekend on PogoWasRight.org, I linked to an editorial from The Korea Herald about the sale of medical information of 43 million people (nearly 90% of the Korean population). The editorial began: A company specializing in developing medical fees settlement programs used by hospitals and the Korea Pharmaceutical Information Center — which distributed free pharmacy…
Category: Health Data
Patient data included on missing thumb drive, OhioHealth says
Ben Sutherly reports: Sensitive data for nearly 1,000 valve-replacement candidates and research subjects at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital might have been compromised when an unencrypted thumb drive came up missing. The data include patients’ names, medical-record numbers, insurance companies, physicians, addresses, dates of birth, referral and treatment dates, and types of procedures conducted on them….
Children’s National Medical Center faces suit for hack of up to 18,000 patients’ data
There’s a follow-up to a breach disclosed in March by the Children’s National Medical Center. Tina Reed reports: Children’s National Health System is facing a potential class-action lawsuit following the hack of the personal data of up to 18,000 patients last year. Fardoes Khan, a longtime patient at Children’s, filed the suit after receiving a…
UK: Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust undertaking: was it really necessary?
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust has had several breaches involving loss or theft of personal information. But it wasn’t the breaches per se that caught the attention of the Information Commissioner’s Office as much as the finding that the Trust was only requiring their employees to refresh Information Governance (IG) training every two years. As…
Healthfirst notifying 5,300 members whose data were stolen between 2012-2014
Healthfirst, 100 Church Street, New York, New York 10007, is notifying approximately 5300 affected members and past members that their personal information may have been compromised in the course of a criminal fraud scheme perpetrated against Healthfirst. Social Security numbers and credit card information were not affected. On May 27, 2015, Healthfirst was informed by the Department of…
Georgia Division Of Aging Services Notifies 3,000 Clients Of Data Breach
Randy L. Key reports: Georgia’s Department of Human Services Division of Aging Services has notified approximately 3,000 clients in the Community Care Services Program of an unauthorized disclosure of their protected health information. The Department has identified the root cause of the issue, which involved the inadvertent disclosure of certain health diagnoses of affected program…