ID Experts alerts us to this latest x-ray breach incident: Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Notify Patients Of Security Breach, Affected Patients Offered Extensive Identity Protection Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals (TJUH) has notified approximately 600 patients that there was a theft of radiology registration documents containing personal information for services provided between February 4 and…
Category: Health Data
Seton medical cards with personal data go astray
Mary Ann Roser reports: A company working with the Seton Healthcare Family mistakenly mailed to the wrong addresses about 555 Seton Health Plan member cards that included names and birth dates, Seton said today. The March 9 mailing by HealthLOGIX of Troy, Mich., came to Seton’s attention a week later when members of the Medicaid health plan called about…
Utah Dept. of Health breach affects more than previously identified
Marjorie Cortez provides an update on a breach that started out bad enough last week, and got a lot worse: Some 280,000 people had their Social Security numbers listed in state health data stolen from a computer server last week, state officials announced Monday, calling the data breach the largest in state history. Another 500,000 victims…
Expect to see more class action lawsuits for data breaches involving PHI
Class action lawsuits for medical data breaches are becoming more attractive to lawyers, particularly in California where there are statutory damages for violation of the state’s Confidential Medical Information Act.
UK: Cancer diagnosis among catalogue of NHS fax blunders
Laura Donnelly and James Clayton report: Disclosures under the Freedom of Information Act reveal almost 600 NHS security breaches involving patients’ personal data in four years. The number of incidents each year doubled, from 90 in 2008 to 179 last year, with millons of records involved. Read more on The Telegraph.
SAIC: Insurance will cover funds sought in TRICARE data theft lawsuits
They say they have enough insurance to cover data breach costs, but a new filing by SAIC reveals that OCR has opened an investigation into the breach incident where unencrypted data were stolen from an employee’s unattended vehicle.