Peter Frost and Julie Wernau of the Chicago Tribune report than 4 million patients of Advocate Medical Group may be at risk of ID theft after four computers were stolen during a burglary last month at Advocate’s administrative building on West Touhy Avenue in Park Ridge. Advocate Medical Group is part of Advocate Health Care….
Category: Health Data
UK: Islington Council hit with monetary penalty after 2,375 residents' personal details published online
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served Islington Council with a monetary penalty of £70,000 after personal details of over 2,300 residents were released online. The information was inadvertently released in response to a freedom of information request, and revealed sensitive personal information relating to residents’ housing needs, including details of whether they had a history of…
Lessons learned from earlier breaches left Beth Israel Deaconess better prepared to protect patient privacy after the Boston bombings
A data breach that cost Beth Deaconess Medical Center in Boston over $500,000 in costs seems to have paid off when the hospital found itself with high-profile patients whose privacy needed protection: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the Boston bombing victims. CIO John Halamka explains how Deloitte’s recommendations to them after a laptop theft and another data leak left…
Colorado medical marijuana patients protest privacy breaches
Kristen Wyatt of Associated Press reports: Medical marijuana patients asked Colorado health authorities on Wednesday to destroy and rebuild the state’s 107,000-person marijuana patient registry because of security breaches. The Board of Health unanimously rejected the emergency petition. But officials expressed alarm about a recent state audit showing the Colorado Department of Health and Environment…
Email attachment error breaches privacy of 3,700 Hope Community Resources of Alaska clients
Sean Doogan reports: Families and caregivers connected to Alaska’s disabled are speaking out after the inadvertent release of private, personal and sensitive identity and healthcare information was blasted out in an email chain on Monday night. Some are just angry that an attachment with personal information was accidentally added to a survey solicitation for Hope…
Student Claims Arrogant Doc Ruined Her
Jack Bouboushian reports: A physician ruined a college student’s career prospects by taking photos of her recovering from an alcohol binge in a hospital emergency room and posting them, with comments, on Facebook and Instagram, the student claims in court. Elena Chernyakova sued Dr. Vinaya Puppala, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and the Feinberg School of Medicine…