One of the breaches recently added to HHS’s public-facing breach tool was an incident involving Barnabas Health in New Jersey. In response to my e-mail and phone inquiries, today they sent me a link to a statement that was subsequently posted on their web site: IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PEDIATRIC SPECIALTY CENTER PATIENTS Posted Date: 12/18/2013…
Category: Health Data
Inspira: No patient information on stolen computer
Don E. Woods reports the good news for Inspira Medical Center Vineland patients: There was no patient information on a computer stolen from Inspira Medical Center Vineland, according to a hospital spokesman. Read more on NJ.com. It’s unfortunate that patients worried for days about whether their data had been stolen and that the medical center…
Potential class action lawsuit filed over missing Kaiser flash drive
Where there’s a breach, there’s often a lawsuit. Barbara Wallace of Courthouse News reports: A flash drive holding the confidential medical records of almost 49,000 Kaiser patients was stolen, exposing their names and other information, a class claims in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Central District Court. Ginger Buck brought a class action…
Colorado notifies 1,918 Medicaid clients of HIPAA breach by contractor's employee
Colorado’s Department of Health Care Policy and Financing issued the following notice: DENVER – December 27, 2013 – The Department of Health Care Policy and Financing announced today that client information was sent from a work to a personal email address by a temporary employee of its contractor, the Colorado Community Health Alliance (CCHA). The list…
Response by Adult & Pediatric Dermatology to settlement with HHS
I was originally pointing readers to HealthITSecurity.com for APDerm’s statement, but I just checked email and see that APDerm sent me their statement, so I’m reproducing it here: December 27, 2013 – Along with protecting our patients’ health and safety, protecting their privacy is our highest priority. In 2011, we were victims of a crime and…
Update: City of Milwaukee employees file complaint over data breach
Well, we knew it was coming, but now Milwaukee employees have filed their formal complaint against Dynacare with HHS OCR. Don Walker has the story. If the allegations are true/founded, then at the very least Dynacare should have to explain whether it had a policy in place that would have required the flash drive to…