Some class act was able to acquire customers’ credit and debit cards used at Aultman Hospital’s gift shop between February and September. Read about it on CantonRep.com.
Category: Health Data
PA: HHS opens investigation into closed Monsour Medical Center
Richard Gazarik reports: Federal officials are investigating how patient records loaded with intimate medical details and doctors’ personnel files were abandoned amid the ruins of Monsour Medical Center when its administrators walked away from the failing facility six years ago. The records, in easy reach of the vagrants, arsonists and other trespassers who frequent the…
HHS tool reveals three more breaches
Today’s update of HHS’s breach tool reveals three more breaches not previously reported on this blog: Sierra Plastic Surgery in Nevada was hacked or had a network compromise between August 19, 2011 and September 20, 2011, but are apparently just reporting it to HHS now – unless HHS mistyped the year of the incident twice….
TN: Blount Memorial Hospital notifies 27,000 of stolen laptop (updated)
The Maryville Daily Times reports: Blount Memorial Hospital has informed patients of the theft of a hospital laptop containing registration records of Blount Heart Consultants. The laptop was reported stolen from an employee’s home on Aug. 25 and has not yet been recovered. Read more on The Maryville Daily Times. There does not seem to…
Ca: Charges laid under the Health Information Act
From the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta: Thirty-four charges have been laid against an individual under the Health Information Act, along with six additional charges under the Criminal Code. The charges have not yet been proven in Court. As a result of a self-reported breach to the Office of the Information…
Akron General fires employees for patient privacy violations in hospital shooting case
Cheryl Powell reports: Akron General Medical Center employees were fired recently for violating hospital and federal privacy rules involving the fatal shooting of a patient in the intensive-care unit. John H. Wise, 66, is accused of shooting and killing his wife, Barbara, at the hospital Aug. 4. She died the next day. Hospital spokesman Jim…