Category: Health Data

Somehow, BCBS of North Carolina mailed out about 100 members’ old PHI to new members in their new member packets. BCBS is blaming a software glitch. Read more on Examiner.com

HealthImaging reports the follow-up to a breach previously noted on this blog: Gerald Micalizzi, MD, a Connecticut radiologist formerly employed by Advanced Mobile Imaging Radiology, has been fined $20,000 after downloading patients’ personal information, according to a Valley Independent Sentinel report. From Feb. 4, 2010, to March 5, 2010, Micalizzi accessed the records of 957 patients at…

Delta Dental of Illinois has notified hundreds of people about an incident that could result in the exposure of their personal information. A box containing paper claims was shipped by a subcontractor of Delta Dental of Illinois to the company by a delivery service. The box, which contained claims and X-rays, was lost during shipping….

Another big fine from the ICO: Belfast Health and Social Care (BHSC) Trust has been served with a Civil Monetary Penalty (CMP) of £225,000 following a serious breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA), the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The breach involved the sensitive personal data of thousands of patients and staff, and included medical…

John Corlett reports: More than one week after a major security breach, Queensland Health still does not know how a number of sensitive medical documents were left lying in the gutter. Rockhampton Hospital began an investigation into the security breach early last week after The Morning Bulletin carried a story revealing that sensitive medical documents…

As an update to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering breach mentioned previously, Christopher Twarowski and Rashed Mian of the Long Island Press report: The personal and medical data of a still-undisclosed number of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center patients were erroneously posted on the Internet and accessible for manipulation for more than six years before being detected by the…