HHS/OCR’s web site reveals three more breaches that were never reported in mainstream media: The Long Island Consultation Center in New York is a private mental health clinic providing outpatient psychiatric services. According to an alert on their web site: On May 24, a computer device was reported missing from a secured area at LICC….
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MI: EMT Not Required to Report Abuse Suspicions
Jeff Gorman of Courthouse News reports: An emergency medical technician was not required to report his suspicions that a co-worker had sexually molested a suicidal teenage girl in the back of their ambulance, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled. Timothy O’Connell was the driver, and Matt DiFillippo was the EMT in the back. O’Connell did…
South Shore Hospital Breach Could Affect 800,000
South Shore Hospital today reported that back-up computer files containing personal, health and financial information may have been lost by a professional data management company. The hospital had engaged the company to destroy the files because they were in a format the hospital no longer uses. The hospital has no evidence that information on the…
South Shore Hospital Breach Could Affect 800,000
South Shore Hospital today reported that back-up computer files containing personal, health and financial information may have been lost by a professional data management company. The hospital had engaged the company to destroy the files because they were in a format the hospital no longer uses. The hospital has no evidence that information on the…
Ca: Rulings suggest laws on privacy badly outdated
Rather than pussyfoot around the issue, the provincial government should address the concerns raised by Information and Privacy Commissioner Gary Dickson in the wake of arbitrators reinstating workers in two health regions who’d been fired for breaching the privacy of patient records. In both cases, the employees worked with medical records, were specifically trained on…
New HHS/OCR site provides additional details
It seems that in some cases, more details about breaches are being provided on HHS’s breach list in the way of summaries. To update some previously reported breaches (links are to prior PHIprivacy.net coverage of the breaches): Carle Clinic Association: Protected health information was released from the covered entity when an imposter, posing as representatives…