HHS has added 19 reports to its breach tool. Some of these have been previously covered on this blog, and I’ve linked to the coverage below: Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth/Shred-it Iowa Department of Human Services (affected 7,335, a fact we did not previously know) San Jose Medical Supply Co. (affected 800, a fact…
Category: Health Data
Walgreens must pay woman $1.44 million over HIPAA violation
Tim Evans reports: A Marion County jury Friday awarded a woman $1.44 million after finding Walgreens and a pharmacist violated her privacy when the pharmacist looked up and shared the woman’s prescription history. The lawsuit filed in Marion Superior Court spun out of a tangled relationship between the pharmacist, her husband and the man’s ex-girlfriend….
Oregon Health & Science University notifies patients of ‘cloud’ health information storage
Oregon Health & Science University is notifying 3,044 patients that their OHSU health information was stored on an Internet-based email and/or document storage service, also known as a “cloud” computing system. Although the Internet-based service provider (Google Drive, Google Mail) is password-protected and has security measures and policies in place to protect information, it is…
Ca: Victoria doctor under fire over alleged breach of privacy
Cindy Harnett and Nick Wells report that a Victoria urologist is under investigation by health authorities over allegations he photographed an unconscious, morbidly obese male patient and sent the picture to a friend. Read more on The Province. There are lots of understandable reasons why a doctor might want to share an unusual or interesting case…
California medical privacy breach stats, updated
Several weeks ago, I posted some medical privacy breach statistics I obtained from California (see the chart here) This week, I found some more recent figures. I have no idea why the numbers for some entries do not match what they provided me with previously. But it would appear from the more recent figures that…
X-rays involving more than 15,000 Henry Ford Health System patients stolen from storage warehouse
Associated Press reports that more than 15,000 X-rays of Henry Ford Health System patients were stolen from a warehouse in May. Read more here. The health system posted a substitute notice on July 16: Henry Ford Health System is notifying patients about their health information after old X-ray films were stolen from a storage warehouse before…