Category: Health Data

Brie Zeitner reports from Cleveland, Ohio:  Southwest General Health Center is notifying about 480 patients who were part of an obstetrics study that some of their private information was recently lost, including names, clinical information, data on births and medical record numbers. The data was included in one binder, according to the health system, and the…

Press release from NORCOM, issued yesterday: BELLEVUE, Wash.–The North East King County Regional Public Safety Communication Agency (NORCOM) has announced it is working with local and federal agencies to investigate the security breach of a server that stored records of an estimated 6,000 medical responses for Duvall Fire District 45, Skykomish Fire Department and Snoqualmie…

Melissa Jayne Kinsey compiles some cases where medical personnel breached patient privacy by their use of social media – sometimes intentionally. Read her article on Slate.

Erin McCann has a follow-up to a concerning report I noted here in March that involves the IRS’s seizure of 60 million records containing PHI of 10 million people from an unnamed company. McCann reports that the company has since been identified as Three Rivers Provider Network. As previously reported, the incident related to an IRS…

WALB is just all over a breach involving Phoebe Putney Hospital in Georgia that was disclosed yesterday. Today, WALB reports that two employees have been fired over the breach, which the hospital still hasn’t described as a theft: Phoebe officials say a computer forensics investigation showed only 13 people’s social security numbers were recorded on that…

The remainder of today’s HHS update consists of breaches I did not previously cover on this blog. I’ve added details where I can find them. If there are no details, it means I looked, but couldn’t find anything yet. If you can add/provide details, please e-mail this site. Metcare of Florida, Inc reported that 2,557 were…