As noted on this site in July 2012, Boston.com reported that a laptop with patient information had been stolen from a physician’s office at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in May. By August 2013, the breach had cost the medical center over $500,000, but there was at least one silver lining. Now, however, the breach has cost them…
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SLC Security to WakeMed: Wake Up!!!!
As previously noted on this blog, SLC Security has been trying since early September- unsuccessfully – to get WakeMed to stop an alleged data leak of thousands of patients’ information. This week, SLC Security posted: Here are some details. We previously contacted them but they have not responded. Records redacted so we are not creating an…
Prime Healthcare and Shasta Regional still don't get HIPAA?
Remember the case of a patient whose PHI was disclosed to media by Shasta Regional Center and Prime Healthcare? If you don’t, just search this site for “Prime Healthcare,” and you’ll find a slew of coverage, including a $95,000 fine by California and a $275,000 settlement with OCR after they stubbornly insisted they had not violated…
Turkey halts biometric healthcare registration
Planet Biometrics reports: Turkey’s Council of State has ruled that biometric registration of patients must stop as it is unconstitutional. The body made the decision in response to lawsuits raised against scanning patient’s palms by the Turkish Physicians Association and other groups. The Turkish Social Security Institution introduced biometric identification for patients in 2012 to…
Update on Coulee Medical Center breach
There’s an update to the Coulee Medical Center breach, where 2,500 patients were notified that a physician had improperly shared PHI with his wife between January 2010 and November 2013. He subsequently claimed that his wife, an actuary, was helping him develop a statistical tool for analyzing data. Even so… From HHS’s summary of their…
Update on UHS-Pruitt breach, and we learn of another Pruitt breach
In today’s installment, we update one Pruitt breach reported on this blog in December 2013, and we also find out about another Pruitt breach, not previously reported on this site. HHS has updated its breach entry for a September 2013 incident involving a UHS-Pruitt stolen laptop with data on 1,300 patients: “A manager’s unencrypted laptop computer was stolen…