Tomoya Shimura reports: Medical records at the Westside Park Elementary School Based Health Center may have been accessed when the county clinic was burglarized, San Bernardino County officials said Tuesday. Staff at the clinic in the 18200 block of Casaba Road discovered the burglary on Oct. 1. In addition to damages to the building, office…
Category: Health Data
Sierra Plastic Surgery notifies patients of privacy and data security breach that occurred in 2011
Aha. We now have some information on a breach that had been posted to HHS’s breach tool on October 19. At that time, I had blogged: 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 –…
VT: Woman gets probation for looking at another’s medical records
I had missed this case every time it appeared in the media, it seems, but the Times Argus reported on November 10 that a former employee at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center was sentenced for snooping into the records of her husband’s ex-wife on numerous occasions: After an emotional hearing, a judge sentenced a woman who…
CT: Bag stolen from car in September contained data from Soundental Associates
The New Haven Register reports: A bag stolen from a car in September contained data from a local dentist office, but the business said Monday that patients’ privacy has not been compromised. The bag contained personal items and back-up media cartridges from Soundental Associates P.C. that were being taken to an off-site storage location. It…
Safe stolen from Dayton chiropractic office
NewsTalkRadioWHIO reports: A chiropractic office was broken into early Monday morning and reportedly had a safe and computer stolen. The break in occurred at about 1:30 a.m. at Long Chiropractic, located at 4978 Northcutt Pl., according to a Dayton Police incident report. Thieves broke out a window on the south side of the building and…
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences warns 1,500 patients of breach
Gavin Lesnick reports: UAMS is notifying about 1,500 patients that a former resident doctor who was fired in 2010 improperly kept medical records containing some personal information. The hospital said in a statement that the doctor violated policy when she kept documents containing information including patient names, partial addresses, medical record numbers, dates of birth,…