Category: Health Data

I’ve covered cases of snooping employees a number of times on this blog, but for a quick overview of some of the cases that made the media in the U.S., here’s an article by William H. Maruca of Fox Rothschild on Lexology.com,

Two hospitals are reporting breaches involving x-ray films. WITN reports that a North Carolina hospital, Vidant Pungo Hospital, is sending letters to as many of the 1,100 affected patients as they can find, after paper jackets with old radiology films were accidentally sent out with the trash to a local landfill.The paper jackets contained the…

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…

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 –…

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…

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…