A few weeks ago, I had no idea what Dentrix software was. Now I’ve seen it mentioned in connection with two recent breaches involving PHI (the first one was this breach, involving an older version of Dentrix). Such coincidences often get my attention. Dr. Rob Meaglia is a dentist in Rocklin, California. According to his December…
Category: Health Data
HHS updates breach tool, Part 2: it's news to me
Today’s update to HHS’s breach tool included a number of incidents that I had not known about: Servicios Medicos Integrados de Fajardo in Puerto Rico reported that T & P Consulting, Inc. d/b/a Quantum Health Consulting reported lost device(s) with PHI on 10,000. The incident occurred on January 11, 2012, and I had already entered…
HHS updates breach tool, Part 1: many older incidents newly added
Okay, so HHS decided to give me a migraine by adding no less than 37 breach incidents to its public breach tool today. I suspect, but cannot be certain, that my repeated inquiries to them about breach reports not showing up in a timely fashion – the last such inquiry a few days ago –…
MD: Employee at Good Samaritan Hospital pleads guilty to stealing patient info
Ian Duncan of the Baltimore Sun has an update on two of the defendants involved in a breach noted previously on this blog. Two women pleaded guilty Friday to using stolen medical records to open or take over credit accounts at department stores and setting up a cottage industry selling fraudulently obtained goods. Chanell Cole,…
New Mexico Oncology and Hematology Consultants notifies patients after laptop stolen from employee's office
Statement on their website: Albuquerque, New Mexico (December 31, 2013) – On November 13, 2013, New Mexico Oncology and Hematology Consultants, Ltd. (NMOHC) discovered that a laptop computer was stolen from an employee’s office. The stolen laptop computer may have contained the following types of unsecured protected health information (PHI): names, dates of birth, and…
Another University of Florida breach that flew under my radar
Stumbled across this University of Florida breach today while searching for something else: Payroll Breach Information Published: March 11th, 2013 On February 17, 2013, the University’s Privacy Office was notified that a list of social security numbers (SSN) was mistakenly released. Specifically, a payroll processing report that included SSNs was shared by means of a public…