Understanding what your insurance will cover when it comes to a data breach and what it won’t can save you a lot of grief down the road. Roberta D. Anderson of K&L Gates analyzes a recent case where the court concluded that a breached entity was covered under the terms of their policy’s language, but…
Category: Health Data
Maryland Attorney General's Office enforcement actions for improper disposal of records with PHI
I was just reading news story about a breach in Maryland, and was surprised to learn that the Maryland Attorney General’s Office had charged two health care entities with improper disposal of records and that both cases had settled over the summer. Here’s the press release from August 27, 2013: Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler…
FL: Patient data may have been leaked, doctors group warns
Josh Salmon reports: A physicians group with offices throughout Southwest Florida has notified 4,400 patients that their protected health information may have been breached. An employee at Florida Digestive Health Specialists LLP improperly accessed and photographed some personal patient records that included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and telephone numbers, according to the…
Ca: Medical marijuana users launch proposed lawsuit after Health Canada privacy gaffe
I wish I had a dollar for every mailing error where someone’s Social Security number was exposed in the envelope window or embedded in the mailing address – or where one person’s statement got combined with another person’s in the same envelope. But those kind of mailing errors are nothing compared to a mailing error…
Kaiser Foundation Hospital Orange County – Anaheim Medical Center notifying patients of breach
Kaiser Foundation Hospital Orange County – Anaheim Medical Center is notifying patients of a breach that occurred on September 25. In a letter signed by Julie Miller-Phipps, Senior Vice President, Executive Director of Kaiser Foundation Hospital Orange County, patients were informed that Kaiser Permanente was notified on on September 25 that a flash drive containing patients’ names,…
In Monroeville, have politics and personal allegiances trumped data privacy and security?
A PHIprivacy.net editorial. As regular readers know, PHIprivacy.net and PogoWasRight.org have been covering breach accusations involving the emergency medical dispatch (EMD) and police criminal history databases in Monroeville, Pennsylvania. The town’s investigation into the allegations, an independent forensic evaluation of the security controls in use for the systems, and a subsequent state attorney general’s investigation all confirmed…