Category: Health Data

Kentucky’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) has issued a statement disclosing a recent breach: The Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) is informing 1,090 Medicaid clients by letter of a computer security breach that may have resulted in the unintentional release of information held by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services (HP ES), the vendor…

I was surprised to read this morning that Hospice of North Idaho had settled charges by HHS over a laptop stolen from an employee’s car in the summer of 2010. I was surprised, in part, because I was not aware of this incident at all as it had not appeared in HHS’s breach tool. Since…

Updated to include statement from hospital under original story. The Detroit Free Press reports that an electronic device stolen from the car of an employee of Omnicell on November 14 contained data on 4,000 patients. The University of Michigan Health System learned of the incident on November 20 and will be notifying 4,000 patients  from…

On Friday,  HHS   added 14 new incident reports to its breach tool. Half of them are organizations affected by the ADPI breach, and I’ve added their numbers to the list I’ve been keeping of affected organizations and number notified of that incident. Another breach HHS added today was one already covered on this blog….

East Idaho News reports: A man in Ammon is upset after he found several boxes containing medical records and other personal information behind his workplace. KIDK reports Wes Dustin found boxes of information from The Children’s Center in a dumpster. The documents were seven to eight years old. An employee for Grand Teton Storage left…

Although it’s flown under the media’s radar so far, CCS Medical has notified states, law enforcement, HHS, and the IRS that an employee may have accessed and disclosed customers’ and patients’ Social Security numbers for a tax refund fraud scheme. And yes, this took place in Florida. Interestingly (to me, anyway), the dates of possible…