John Perera reports: A hospital in northwest Harris County is warning 741 patients that their personal health information was compromised by a former employee. Several patients at IntraCare North Hospital have reported false income tax returns were filed using their personal information, hospital spokesman John Redd said. That ex-employee was an intake coordinator at the…
Category: Health Data
Maine VA hospital launches investigation after patient records dumped unshredded into Dumpster
Stephen Betts reports: Patient records were dumped unshredded into a Dumpster last month at the Maine VA Medical Center but a spokesman said the documents never left the campus grounds and that no personal identifying information was disclosed. A bag containing a number of documents from the prosthetics section of the medical center was discovered…
Ca: First report issued on breach of new health info act
CBC News reports: Newfoundland and Labrador’s privacy commissioner says a registered massage therapist breached the Personal Health Information Act by failing to properly safeguard a patient’s file. Commissioner Ed Ring says the therapist lost a file containing the personal health information of the complainant, a patient. The commissioner recommended that the massage therapist, and other…
Security breach: Twice victimized
Eleanor Sundwall has a well-written commentary about the Utah Dept. of Health breach that I hope people read as she articulates how entities respond to a breach may leave the victims of a breach feeling even more victimized. You can read her commentary on the Salt Lake Tribune. Eleanor’s story raises another issue, however. She…
Suit hits Pentagon over huge 2011 data breach
Bryan Bender has a piece in The Boston Globe about the TRICARE/SAIC breach last December. The story doesn’t shed any new light on the breach, and I am still waiting for Rep. Ed Markey to release the response he got from TRICARE to a letter he had sent them (his staff assures me he will…
Prime hospital cited for patient confidentiality violation
Lance Williams reports on a case previously covered on this blog: A Prime Healthcare Services hospital in Redding broke state law when it publicized a patient’s confidential medical files in an effort to discredit a California Watch news report, state regulators say. The state Department of Public Health on Tuesday issued five “deficiencies” against Shasta…