On October 5, HHS received a HIPAA breach notification from the National Ambulatory Hernia Institute in California. According to the notification, the incident affected 15,974 patients. A notice prominently displayed on NAHI’s site explains that there was a ransomware incident on September 13. URGENT NOTICE – DATA BREACH SUSPECTED URGENT NOTICE: Our office has experienced a…
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NC: Notice to Catawba Valley Medical Center Patients of a Phishing Email Incident
This notice from their web site just showed up in my searches: Catawba Valley Medical Center (CVMC) is committed to protecting the security and confidentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice concerns an incident that may have involved some of that information. On August 13, 2018, CVMC determined an unauthorized person may have gained…
$400K settlement reached in Capital Health patient privacy breach
Richard Woodbury reports: A proposed settlement worth about $400,000 has been reached in a Nova Scotia class-action lawsuit relating to the improper access of patients’s personal health information by an employee of the former Capital District Health Authority, according to a law firm involved in the case. The breaches by former employee Katharine Zinck Lawrence, who accessed the…
California court allows lawsuit over breach of HIV patients’ information to move forward
There’s an update on a lawsuit previously noted on this site. John Riley reports: The Superior Court of California has rejected a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit on behalf of 93 HIV-positive people, who had their personal information compromised by a data breach of the state’s AIDS Drug Assistance Program online enrollment system….
Ogdensburg hospital terminates employees following breaches of patient information; says police not involved
Jimmy Lawton reports: Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center says “breaches of patient information were discovered” during a recent internal investigation, but employees who purposefully committed the acts have been terminated. CHMC spokeswoman Laura Shea said the hospital dealt with the breach immediately and took action required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which outlines…
Unauthorized Disclosure of Patients’ Protected Health Information During “Boston Med” Filming Results in Multiple HIPAA Settlements Totaling $999,000
Today was not a good day for hospitals in Massachusetts. First, we saw the state’s attorney general announce a settlement between the state and UMass Memorial Healthcare and UMass Memorial Medical Centers involving insider breaches for fraudulent purposes. And now we see this announcement from the federal regulator, OCR: Today, the Department of Health and…