The Kirkbride Center in Pennsylvania is a 245-bed 245 comprehensive behavioral health care facility located in Philadelphia that provides acute psychiatric and addiction services. Philadelphia, Pa, November 19, 2014 – The Kirkbride Center(“Kirkbride”) is notifying the public, under the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Breach Notification Rule, of the theft of a small number of…
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MO: Settlement reached over improper disposal of women's medical records
Garrett Haake has an update to a potential class action lawsuit filed in June over a breach in May: Attorneys representing more than 1,500 women whose personal medical information was compromised when their records were blown from a dumpster on a windy day in May have reached a settlement agreement with the medical group responsible. In the settlement…
Medical Billing Provider and its Former CEO Settle FTC Charges That They Misled Consumers About Collection of Personal Health Data
From the FTC: An Atlanta-based health billing company and its former CEO have settled Federal Trade Commission charges they misled thousands of consumers who signed up for an online billing portal by failing to adequately inform them that the company would seek highly detailed medical information from pharmacies, medical labs and insurance companies. In a…
Not all medical data is protected by HIPAA, Tuesday reminder (updated)
The Sony Pictures breach, which normally wouldn’t be covered on this blog, serves as a useful reminder of how much medical and/or health insurance information employers hold on employees – information that you wouldn’t want in the hands of hackers. See Brian Kreb’s post today on the Sony breach. The linked file tree directory is concerning….
Researchers seek medical data use without patient permission
Joseph Conn reports: The American Medical Informatics Association is asking Congress to amend a central federal healthcare privacy rule, in order to give medical researchers access to patient records without their consent. A see-saw battle has been waged at the federal policy level for more than a decade over patient consent regarding medical records, with…
MN: Northfield Hospital & Clinics patients notified of breach after PHI accidentally disposed of improperly
From Northfield Hospital & Clinics web site on November 21: Patients to be notified of breach of patient information Northfield Hospital & Clinics is in the process of directly notifying 1,778 patients about a recent breach in the handling of protected patient information. The notification stems from an incident over a period of eight days…