WFTV reports: Boxes of patient information from Florida Hospital are missing, hospital officials said Friday. A hospital representative said some boxes were misplaced while moving boxes of patient files from one storage unit to another. In a release, the hospital said, “While transferring boxes from our storage vendor, Access, to another one of our storage…
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IL: Mercy Hospital & Medical Center notifies patients after billing service loses 547 patients’ documents
From their substitute notice: On August 15, 2016, Mercy Hospital & Medical Center discovered that some medical billing information for a total of 547 patients was potentially exposed as a result of a third-party billing service’s loss of Mercy’s documents from their offices. The information exposure occurred on August 15, 2016. We have taken the necessary…
Ca: 19 patients affected in ‘accidental’ Eastern Health privacy breach
CBC News reports: Eastern Health is calling a privacy breach involving 19 patients at a travelling clinic in Happy Valley-Goose Bay “accidental.” “I apologize to all of the patients, as well as their families, for this accidental material breach,” said Eastern Health CEO David Diamond in a news release Wednesday. The health authority said the personal information of…
Newest OCR settlement highlights need to review and update Business Associate Agreements
A newly announced settlement between HHS OCR and Care New England reinforces what DataBreaches.net and Protenus, Inc. have been trying to remind everyone of this week: pay more attention to your business associate agreements and do so regularly. Care New England Health System (CNE), on behalf of each of the covered entities under its common ownership…
Napa Valley Dentistry notifies patients after theft of server from storage facility
A dental practice that purchased another dentist’s practice in 2012 finds itself having to notify their patients and his former patients after the theft of a server from a storage facility. In a letter to their patients and those of Dr. Justin Quinn, Dr. Justin Newberry of Napa Valley Dentistry states that on August 11, they discovered that a password-protected…
KidsPeace announces possible client information breach
Dan Sheehan reports on a possible breach involving records that were created solely to document that patients’ medical and treatment records had been securely destroyed. Yes, this would be an appropriate place to insert an “oi veh.” SCHNECKSVILLE — A box containing confidential client health information disappeared from an office at KidsPeace, but the agency says it…