A Milwaukee hospital is warning thousands of its patients that personal information about them may have been stolen. The theft happened at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center on Milwaukee’s south side. More than 6,000 people, who were in-patients here at St. Luke’s will be getting a letter in the mail. It warns them that their…
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Update: BCBS of Tennessee to start sending notifications
John Commins updates us on the Tennessee BlueCross BlueShield breach: BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is readying a Nov. 30 mass mailing to some of its 3.1 million customers in the Volunteer State who may have had their Social Security numbers and other private data compromised after an Oct. 2 hard drive theft at a remote…
TX: Hospital District Employees Fired for Violation
Andrea Watkins reports: A major breach in patient privacy at the Harris County Hospital District has caused 16 employees to lose their jobs. Melinda Muse, a hospital district spokeswoman, says the employees were fired because of HIPAA violations. […] HCHD says it will not confirm specific details on the privacy breach, but it released the…
At UMC, audits show privacy lapses are not new
Marshall Allen of the Las Vegas Sun is staying all over the UMC breach reported here previously. In today’s commentary, he reviews the findings of past audits of UMC’s HIPAA compliance: University Medical Center, facing a possible FBI investigation for allowing confidential patient information to be leaked to outsiders, has a spotty record of adhering…
Former Johns Hopkins Hospital employee sentenced
The U. of Utah defendants were not the only hospital-breach defendants sentenced this week. Michelle Courtney Johnson, a former patient services coordinator at Johns Hopkins Hospital who was part of an ID theft ring with an employee of Crawford & Company was also sentenced this week. The Associated Press reports that Johnson was sentenced to…
Sentencing in U. of Utah Hospitals and Clinics case
Back in June 2008, the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics revealed that a backup tape containing billing records, medical codes, and Social Security numbers on 2.2 million patients was stolen from the vehicle of one of their contractors, Perpetual Storage. The tape was returned a month later after those receiving the stolen tapes understood…