In November of 2011, this site reported on a breach involving Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Kansas. Available information at the time indicated that 8,000 patients’ financial information might have been accessed. The online payment system was provided by Mid Continent Credit Services. Yesterday, HHS updated their entry on the incident. Their records show that 8,275…
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Update on Southern Perioperative Services breach
In January 2011, this site noted that Southern Perioperative Services in Alabama had reported a breach to HHS that occurred in November 2010 and affected 2,000 patients. Other than HHS’s coding of the incident as “Theft, Other Portable Electronic Device, Other,” no additional details were available. Yesterday, HHS updated its entry for the breach to…
LabMD Case: FTC gets green light to grant former Tiversa employee immunity in data security case
There have been two important developments in the FTC’s administrative case against LabMD over data security. Today, FTC Administrative Law Judge Chappell issued an order that agreed with LabMD that as a non-party, Tiversa had no right to submit any filing without first seeking – and obtaining – leave to intervene. Tiversa had neither sought nor…
UK: NHS Grampian out of compliance with Data Protection Act – again.
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ordered Grampian Health Board (NHS Grampian) to take action to make sure patients’ information is better protected. The warning comes after six data breaches within a thirteen month period where papers containing sensitive personal data were left abandoned in public areas of the hospital…
Identity thieves hit 2 Metro Detroit hospitals
Tresa Baldas reports: A pair of thieves stole the identities of hundreds of patients at two Metro Detroit hospitals and used their personal information to scam the government out of nearly $500,000 in phony tax refunds, the U.S. Attorneys office announced today. According to an indictment unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court, one of the…
Stolen Laptop Doesn't Warrant $116M In Damages, Alere Says
In the latest development in the lawsuit over the Alere Home Monitoring breach that affected over 100,000 patients, Alere now asks the court to dismiss all the remaining charges under the Confidential Medical Information Act. The court had previously tossed the proposed class action lawsuit, and I suspect the court will grant Alere’s motion to…