CBC News reports: Eastern Health will not pursue criminal charges against employees who breached the authority’s strict privacy rules, including those who have already lost their jobs. Five workers were dismissed for looking at the medical records of patients they weren’t caring for, Eastern Health revealed last week. In a statement e-mailed to CBC News,…
Category: Health Data
Northwestern Memorial Hospital notifies hospice patients after laptops with personal and medical info stolen from office (updated)
Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Home Hospice in Chicago is notifying patients of a breach involving their unencrypted personal and medical information. Here is their press release, posted to their site on July 25: Statement Regarding Hospice Burglary and Patient Health Information Breach On the evening of June 11, 2012, Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Home Hospice offices at…
Taking note that we're in the dark (updated to shine some light)
Aha. It’s not just yours truly complaining about breaches where no information is readily available. One of the breaches I had cited as an example involved Upper Valley Medical Center. Citing the entry on HHS’s breach tool, I had written: Upper Valley Medical Center,OH,,”15,000?,10/01/2010-03/21/2012,Unauthorized Access/Disclosure,Other,7/3/2012,, The breach went on for over one year? There…
Hillsborough Health Department: Breach of up to 311 clients' information
Taylor Katz reports that Hillsborough County Health Dept. issued a press release about a breach. The notice is not readily available on the department’s web site at the time of this posting, but as posted by WSTP.com: “The Hillsborough County Health Department is informing the public about a breach of client information. The breach of…
NYU Langone Medical Center notifies 8,400 neurosurgery patients that stolen computer may contain patient health info
NEW YORK, July 23, 2012 – NYU Langone Medical Center notified patients this week that a desktop computer containing personal health information was discovered stolen from the Faculty Group Practice office of John G. Golfinos, MD, chair of the Department of Neurosurgery on May 23, 2012. Although the computer was not encrypted, it was password…
TX: Angelina County Woman Guilty Of HIPAA Violations
LUFKIN, Texas – A 33-year-old Lufkin, Texas woman has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Joneshia Cranford pleaded guilty on July 20, 2012, to wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information before U.S. Magistrate Judge Zack Hawthorn. According to information presented in court,…