Jiselle Mack reports: ProMedica Bay Park Hospital is notifying more than 500 patients of a privacy breach of protected health information. According to a news release from ProMedica, an internal investigation revealed a previous employee accessed records of patients that were not directly under the employee’s treatment from April 1, 2013 to April 1, 2014….
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Los Angeles County moves to require computer encryption after medical data breach
Abby Sewell reports: Following a break-in at a county health contractor’s office that led to the theft of computers containing personal information about more than 342,000 patients, Los Angeles County supervisors moved to tighten protocols for protecting data. The county already requires that workers’ laptops be encrypted. The supervisors voted Tuesday to extend that policy…
Computers with patient test data stolen from Denver VA hospital
John Ferrugia reports: Two bio-medical computers containing data from tests on about 239 VA patients have been stolen from a pulmonary lab at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Denver. These are computers used to record data from pulmonary function tests for the patients and were in a locked pulmonary lab. Read more on The Denver…
GA: Humana security breach could affect 3,000 local members
Health care company Humana is warning Atlanta residents about a possible security breach that could affect nearly 3,000 members in the area. According to the company, an Atlanta-area Humana associate’s vehicle was broken into and an unencrypted USB drive was stolen with the associate’s encrypted laptop computer. Read more on WXIA.
Elliot Health System notifies some individuals after computers stolen
Elliot Health System is notifying some of its patients after four computer work stations with unencrypted names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, limited health information such as billing codes, Social Security number for at least one patient, and Tufts Health Plan insurance number for at least one patient were stolen. EHS became aware of the breach on March…
Update to Sutherland breach
Add 3,497 more Los Angeles County patients to the over 220,000 affected by the Sutherland breach previously noted on this blog. Update: The L.A. Times notes the total count for this breach is now up to about 342,000.