In May, 2017, this site started reporting that a number of healthcare facilities had been impacted by a breach at their vendor, Tuscaloosa-based FastHealth. FastHealth provides website and operational tools and services, including online bill payment. According to FastHealth’s news release at the time, an unauthorized third party had altered code on its web server,…
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Mercy Health Love County Hospital and Clinic notifies patients about unaccounted-for computers
Mercy Health Love County Hospital and Clinic in Oklahoma appears to be having a rough year with breaches and notifications. As previously reported on this site, last summer they had an incident involving medical records being stolen for identity theft. They disclosed that incident in July, and in September, 2017, they reported it to HHS….
Bathurst pharmacist to pay $17,000 for texting private information about a patient
CBC reports: A Bathurst pharmacist who was caught texting information about a patient to someone outside that person’s “circle of care” has been sanctioned for professional misconduct. Pharmacist Diane Roy was suspended Oct. 3, 2016, from her job at the Bathurst Jean Coutu drugstore after the allegation surfaced, and she was dismissed shortly after. Then, on Nov….
MUSC terminates employees who ‘snoop’ in patients’ medical records
Mary Katherine Wildeman and Lauren Sausser report: Thirteen employees were fired in 2017 from the Medical University of South Carolina after administrators determined they had broken federal law by using patient records without permission, spying on patient files or disclosing private information. Some of these privacy breaches involved high-profile patients. Read more on Charleston Post…
UVA Health System Notifies 1,882 Patients About HIPAA Breach
WVIR reports: The University of Virginia Health System is notifying patients of a cyber attack that affected the hospital. The hacker was able to get access to private medical records for 19 months. The FBI discovered that a physician’s devices with the Health System were infected with malware, which allowed the hacker to see what…
White and Bright Family Dental notifies patients after hackers accessed PHI
White and Bright Family Dental in Fresno is notifying patients of a recent hack. In a letter dated February 16 to patients, they write: On January 30, 2018, a business computer server containing your protected health information was accessed by cyber criminals. We immediately notified the Fresno Police Department, so that identification and prosecution of…