The University of Washington Medicine (UW Medicine) is notifying patients after an error exposed protected health information of 974,000 patients online for three weeks in December. UW Medicine includes the University’s medical school as well as Harborview Medical Center, the UW Medical Center, Northwest Hospital and Medical Center, Valley Medical Center and more than two-dozen…
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Privacy commissioner investigating security of patient health records at Alberta Health Services Social Sharing
Jennie Russell reports: Alberta’s privacy commissioner is investigating whether Alberta Health Services properly safeguards the public’s personal health information after CBC News revealed the electronic system housing it was vulnerable to outside security threats. A 2018 assessment by an external security firm found several “significant risks” with the health authority’s administration of the Alberta Netcare…
Piles of Southside Medical Center patients’ confidential medical records found outside the Atlanta clinic
Michael Seiden reports: Piles of partially burned medical records were discovered across the street from a metro Atlanta medical center, Channel 2 Action News has learned. Southside Medical Clinic said they have no idea how the records got there. A viewer alerted Channel 2’s Michael Seiden to the issue in a parking lot across the street from…
Memorial Hospital at Gulfport phishing incident exposed 30,000 patients’ information
Anita Lee reports: Memorial Hospital is offering free credit monitoring and identify protection services to a “limited number” of patients whose Social Security numbers, health-insurance information and other personal details were part of an employee email account that a third party accessed. Janet Stuart, the hospital’s manager of marketing and communications, said the email account…
AltaMed, BlueShield of California notify patients and regulators after breach at Sharecare Health Data Services
From their press release, and I’ll meet you on the other side: AltaMed Health Services Corporation (“AltaMed”) has become aware of a data security incident experienced by its business associate, Sharecare Health Data Services (“SHDS”), that may have involved the personal and protected health information of some of its patients. AltaMed has sent notification letters…
Hampton Roads Community Health Center notifies patients after discovering server compromise
Geena Arevalo reports that Hampton Roads Community Health Center has disclosed that in December, it discovered that its server with (unencrypted) patient data had been compromised. The center did not disclose the number affected nor how the attack occurred (of course, they may not know that yet), but a notice posted on the center’s web site…