I see that HHS’s breach tool has been made more user-friendly by providing some filters: That’s good to see, although it seems that they’re no longer showing a counter on that page, and as of last week, that counter showed 804 while the .csv file showed 792. I was aware that there were some duplicates…
Category: Health Data
Sidney Regional Medical Center notifying job applicants of exposure breach
If you applied for a job at Sidney Regional Medical Center in Nebraska, you may be receiving a breach notification letter in the mail soon, as they’re being sent out today. On December 12, Sidney Regional Medical Center learned that a previous version of their web site had been stored on a server without proper settings…
NC: CaroMont Health notifies patients of theft of their information
Less than three months after it disclosed one security breach, CaroMont is back in the news after a record with patients’ information was stolen from an employee’s car on December 16. Michael Barrett reports: Melissa Huggins said respiratory problems related to pneumonia took her to CaroMont Regional Medical Center last year. But she doesn’t understand…
Update on the VA’s eBenefits website breach
The VA responded to my email inquiries about the recently disclosed breach involving the eBenefits web site with the following statement: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) takes seriously our obligation to properly safeguard personal information. During a limited period of time Wednesday evening, as part of a process to improve software supporting the joint VA and Department…
GA: Macon woman sentenced in nursing home identity thefts
Liz Fabian reports: A 32-year-old Macon woman faces 27 years in prison after stealing the identities of nursing home patients and filing a half-million dollars worth of fraudulent tax returns. Yolando Blount, also known as Yolanda King, was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Macon after pleading guilty in September to wire fraud, mail…
Trains, pains and allegations: fairness in medical misconduct cases
Richard Booth QC writes about West London Mental Health NHS Trust (Respondent) v Chhabra (Appellant) [2013] UKSC 80 : It is not unknown for lawyers or doctors to speak on a mobile phone about confidential details of a case while travelling by train. Some of you may even have left case papers out on your seat or…