CBC News reports that a doctor who allegedly improperly accessed patient files for over two years continues to be employed by the facility, who didn’t even notify patients when they first discovered the breach: Although New Brunswick’s Department of Health says it could step in to remove the doctor involved in a privacy incident at…
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Inspira Vineland notifying patients about December theft of computers with PHI
On December 27, I blogged: Four days after a computer was stolen from Inspira Medical Center Vineland, the hospital still can’t say whether there was any patient data on it? The hospital issued a statement the next day saying that no patient data was on the stolen computers, but as I noted on January 17, when they announced an…
Lawsuit against Omnicell dismissed
I’ve blogged about the Omnicell breach of November 2012 a number of times on this blog as new information emerged about who was affected by the breach. As a quick reminder, a laptop with unencrypted PHI was stolen from an employee’s car. Omnicell is a business associate of numerous hospitals, providing them with medication dispensing/pharmacy…
Long after some breaches occurred, we first find out via HHS's breach tool (Update 1)
HHS updated its breach tool yesterday. The following is an annotated list of new entries on their list. It is not clear to me why there are breach entries where the breaches occurred in 2011 or 2012. Did HHS delay in adding incidents to the breach tool or are entities first discovering and/or reporting the…
HHS updates its breach tool, but still leaves us pretty much in the dark
HHS has added 19 reports to its breach tool. Some of these have been previously covered on this blog, and I’ve linked to the coverage below: Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth/Shred-it Iowa Department of Human Services (affected 7,335, a fact we did not previously know) San Jose Medical Supply Co. (affected 800, a fact…
llinois health agency notifies 3,100 Cook County residents of mailing error disclosing PHI
WLS reports: The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services says information on about 3,100 clients in Cook County may have been released. It says a managed care contractor accidentally sent client ID cards to the wrong addresses. The personal information on the Family Health Network ID card included member name, state issued Medicaid number…