Category: Health Data

From the Michael H. Cohen Law Group: A federal court in Indiana rules that patient’s HIPAA and state privacy claims could stand, based on the allegation that a physician shared information about the patient’s medical condition with his employer. In Reed v. Rodarte, No. 2:11 CV 153 (N.D. Ind. Feb. 14, 2013), the court rejected the physician’s…

Paul Smith reports on an incident at a Lancaster, Pennsylvania medical practice: A patient at Crooked Oak Family Medicine stole a document containing personal information about some of the practice’s other patients on February 5, 2013. Read more on Fox43. A statement posted today on Lancaster General Health‘s web site says: A Crooked Oak Family…

Derek Spalding reports that lawsuit over a lost USB drive breach is brewing: Two heavyweight lawfirms out of Windsor and Toronto promise to launch a class-action lawsuit as early as next week against Montfort Hospital for its role in losing the personal information of 25,000 patients. Representatives from Sutts, Strosberg LLP and Falconer Charney LLP…

Updated to include details of the DentaQuest of Florida breach. HHIS updated its breach tool this week, adding a baker’s dozen of incidents. I did some digging to find details for the reports we did not know about already. Some of what I found was reported in Part 1, here.  The following were also included…

HHIS updated its breach tool this week, adding a baker’s dozen of incidents. Significantly, 6 of the 13 involved stolen laptops while 3 others involved theft or loss of electronic devices. Two of the 13 incidents were already known through either media coverage or reports to a state’s attorney general. In both cases, HHS’s breach…

Personally, I detest it when entities won’t disclose any many people were notified or affected by a breach. It’s one of the few times that I think the “nothing to hide” argument applies. When it comes to healthcare sector breaches affecting more than 500, refusal to disclose to the media makes even less sense to…