Hartford-based CareCentrix, Inc. is a home care network that contracts with health plans to provide home care services for their insured members. In that context, CareCentrix has access to personal and protected health information of those to whom they provide services. On August 11, law enforcement contacted CareCentrix and informed them that a former employee had…
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Ca: Vitalité Health refers doctor privacy breach to RCMP
CBC News reports: Vitalité Health Network is asking Codiac Regional RCMP in Moncton to investigate after one of its doctors accessed the electronic medical records of dozens of female patients without authorization. An investigation by New Brunswick’s Privacy Commissioner Anne Bertrand determined Dr. Fernando Rojas Lievano of the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre in Moncton…
I'm a neurotic. IBM told me so.
Joseph Volpe writes: I’m a late Wednesday afternoon tweeter. It’s not a characteristic I’d necessarily include on any of my dating app profiles, but it accurately sums up my online behavior nonetheless. I’m also a tremendous neurotic (which should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me well) who embraces self-expression, challenges and change….
Billing dispute leads to blocked patient data in Maine
Christopher Rowland reports that Full Circle Health Care in Maine found itself locked out of its own patients’ records after a fee dispute with CompuGroup, a German corporation with U.S. headquarters in Boston. Read about this situation on Boston Globe, and then take another look at your vendor/business associate contracts. Could this happen to you?…
Cook County Health & Hospitals System notifies hundreds of patients that email with PHI was sent without encryption
On September 17, Cook County Health & Hospitals System posted a breach notification on their site: As part of a collaborative public health project, an individual working on behalf of CCHHS sent an e-mail to an authorized individual at a non-Cook County healthcare organization in July 2014. The transmitted information contained protected health information that…
UK: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust signs undertaking with ICO
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. This follows an investigation into two separate incidents involving disclosures of personal data. The first reported incident involved a file containing personal data relating to approximately 4,200 service users being unintentionally…