San Jose-based orthopedic surgeon Stephen T. Imrie, M.D. is notifying 8,900 patients that a password-protected laptop stolen from his home on September 23 held their protected health information. Although the burglary was immediately reported to the police, the laptop has not been recovered. Patient information on the laptop included the patients’ names, dates of birth, telephone…
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Kaiser Permanente reports privacy breach to 49,000 patients
Chad Terhune reports: Healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente has notified about 49,000 patients of a privacy breach at its Anaheim Medical Center. Kaiser said a computer flash drive was reported missing Sept. 25 inside the hospital’s nuclear medicine department. The storage drive included patient names, date of birth, their medical record number and the type and…
IL: Laptop Containing Patient Information Stolen From SIU (updated)
WICS reports: A laptop containing personal information of 1,891 SIU [Southern Illinois University] HealthCare patients is presumed stolen. The computer, which belonged to a former SIU orthopedic surgeon, was discovered missing from a locked office on October 15. SIU HealthCare said today that certain personal and medical information of 1,891 patients was contained on the laptop….
TX: Laptop with Houston Methodist Hospital patient info stolen
Mike Glenn reports: Sensitive information for about 1,300 transplant patients is missing after a laptop and files were reported stolen, officials with Houston Methodist Hospital said Friday. The encrypted laptop and files were taken Thursday. They held personal information, including names, Social Security numbers and birth dates. Read more on The Houson Chronicle. KHOU also covers the incident.There is…
Horizon BCBS notifying 840,000 members after laptops stolen with personal data (update 1)
Ed Beeson reports: Nearly 840,000 members of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield are being notified that their personal information may have been contained on a pair of laptops that were stolen from the insurer’s Newark headquarters last month. The stolen laptops were password-protected, but had unencrypted data, Horizon said in a statement today. A subsequent…
FTC vs. LabMD update
Two more court filings in FTC vs. LabMD are now available online: the FTC’s Opposition to LabMD’s Motion to Stay Proceedings and LabMD’s reply to FTC’s response opposing LabMD’s motion to dismiss the complaint with prejudice and to stay the proceedings. The latter is of more interest to me right now, but I am putting off a…