Kerana Todorov reports: A man who underwent drug rehabilitation treatment at St. Helena Hospital in 2012 is suing the hospital and others for allegedly disclosing medical information about his care with an employer and others, according to the complaint filed Monday in Napa County Superior Court. The plaintiff, who is only identified as “John Doe”…
Category: Health Data
HealthSource of Ohio data leak exposed 8,800 patients' information
HealthSource of Ohio, a private, not-for-profit community health center experienced a privacy breach in November 2013 that affected 8,845 patients. The incident was added to HHS’s public breach tool this week. According to a statement posted on their website on or after February 26th, HSO uses a web-based program to provide information to patients calling with…
Info on Detroit Medical Center Harper University Hospital patients found in employee's possession during ID theft investigation
JC Reindl reports: A Detroit Medical Center employee was found in possession of personal information of 1,087 patients at DMC’s Harper University Hospital, the hospital system said today. In a statement, DMC said that documents containing the patients’ names, personal health information, date of birth and, in some cases, Social Security numbers were discovered in…
More University of Pittsburgh Medical Center employees report becoming tax refund fraud victims
Karen Zapf and Adam Brandolph report that as many as 322 UPMC employees have been affected by the breach, the system said last week. Read more on TribLive. Note that although the TribLive headline and story referred to this as a UPMC breach, I don’t think it’s actually been confirmed that UPMC had a breach,…
Almost 10,000 being notified of January computer theft at UC San Francisco Family Medicine Center
Statement from UC San Francisco, today: By Elizabeth Fernandez UC San Francisco is alerting some individuals to a burglary involving unencrypted desktop computers that contained some personal and health information. While there is no evidence that there has been any attempted access or attempted use of the information involved in this incident, UCSF is responding with…
NC: Cornerstone alerts patients after laptop with personal information stolen
Owen Covington reports: High Point-based Cornerstone Health Care has alerted more than 500 patients after a laptop at one of its practice locations that contained patient information was stolen earlier this year. On Feb. 26, Cornerstone began reaching out to 548 patients of Cornerstone Neurology in High Point to let them know about the theft,…