Cottage Health System has learned that a recent security incident may have resulted in the disclosure of protected health information for certain patients treated at Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital, Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital and Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital between Sept. 29, 2009, and Dec. 2, 2013. On Dec. 2, Cottage discovered that a third-party…
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L.A. Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center hacked
The L.A. Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center has begun notifying individuals after an attack on their system may have compromised personal, medical, and credit card information. According to the LAGLCSC’s notification to California, the attack occurred between September 17 and November 8 and was confirmed between November 22 and December 3. In a letter…
Kaiser Permanente reports privacy breach to 49,000 patients
Chad Terhune reports: Healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente has notified about 49,000 patients of a privacy breach at its Anaheim Medical Center. Kaiser said a computer flash drive was reported missing Sept. 25 inside the hospital’s nuclear medicine department. The storage drive included patient names, date of birth, their medical record number and the type and…
San Francisco Doctor Accepts Bitcoin to Protect Patient Privacy
Kadhim Shubber reports: A doctor and former programmer is using bitcoin’s revolutionary payment system as a new way to protect his patients’ privacy. Earlier this year, Dr Paul Abramson’s private practice, My Doctor Medical Group in San Francisco, began allowing patients to pay for their care with bitcoin. The decision has meant that people who want to keep their…
IL: Laptop Containing Patient Information Stolen From SIU (updated)
WICS reports: A laptop containing personal information of 1,891 SIU [Southern Illinois University] HealthCare patients is presumed stolen. The computer, which belonged to a former SIU orthopedic surgeon, was discovered missing from a locked office on October 15. SIU HealthCare said today that certain personal and medical information of 1,891 patients was contained on the laptop….
Researchers to Use EMRs to Discover New Disease Associations
I have no idea about the privacy and security controls in place, but this is fascinating stuff and demonstrates some of the good that can come out of Big Data.