The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust has signed an undertaking with the Information Commissioner’s Office following four separate incidents in the last 18 months where letters containing medical information have been sent to the wrong address. In most of these cases, the letters had been sent out by temporary or bank members of staff…
Category: Health Data
UCSF notifying 8,294 gastroenterology patients whose PII and PHI were on laptop stolen from doctor's car
Statement from UCSF: UC San Francisco is alerting some individuals to the theft of a physician’s personal laptop computer that contained personal and health information. While the physician believed the laptop was encrypted, this could not be confirmed. As a result, the individuals involved are being notified. The security of protected health information at UCSF…
Anthem Blue Cross of California notifies doctors whose SSN were displayed in a .pdf file online (Update)
Every so often, we come across a breach involving doctors’ Social Security numbers being exposed online because they use their SSN as their Tax Identification Number (TIN). Here’s another one of those case, this time involving Anthem Blue Cross of California: We are sending you this letter to notify you that your Tax Identification Number (“TIN”), along with…
California physician notifying patients of breach involving old patient data
Here’s another case where a covered entity only learned about a breach when they were contacted by law enforcement. Kathleen E. Whisman, M.D. notified patients on August 5 that on or about April 11, she received a call from the San Ramon Police Department. They informed her that while investigating an ID theft ring,…
Meanwhile, in FTC v. LabMD….
Just to keep everyone apprised on developments in the case this month: LabMD filed a motion to quash 35 subpoenas that had been issued on one day. And on November 12, LabMD filed its motion to dismiss the FTC complaint with prejudice and to stay administrative proceedings. In their motion to dismiss, LabMD raises essentially the same arguments that…
GA: Medical records scattered across Gwinnett County road
Tony Thomas reports: Thousands of pages of medical documents containing confidential information are back in the control of a local hospital after being dumped across a busy Gwinnett County road. […] Officials confirm the papers came from Eastside Medical Center in Snellville. A hospital spokeswoman tells Thomas the papers were taken by a vendor to…