Tom Bolton reports that Cottage Health, which suffered a HIPAA breach in 2013 due to a vendor error (by InSync) that exposed over 50,000 patients‘ information, has suffered another exposure breach: Cottage Health’s efforts to protect the confidentiality of hospital patient records suffered a setback earlier this fall when one of its computer servers was found to be…
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IL: Mailing error by contractor discloses ‘limited’ personal info of 3,000 Centegra patients
Stephen DiBenedetto reports: Medical bills detailing “limited” personal information of 3,000 Centegra Health System patients recently were sent to the wrong addresses because of a mailroom error at a third-party contractor, a Centegra spokeswoman said. The mailing error happened Nov. 2 at MedAssets, a Georgia-based vendor Centegra contracts, during routine maintenance. A setting on automatic…
Pathways Professional Counseling notifies patients; SSN, financial, insurance, diagnosis and treatment info all on stolen laptop
A laptop stolen from a Pathways Professional Counseling employee’s vehicle in September contained unencrypted personal, clinical, financial, and insurance information. Alabama Baptist Children’s Homes & Family Ministries, d/b/a Pathways Professional Counseling (PPC) appears to be a hybrid entity under HIPAA. PPC has numerous locations throughout Alabama and describes itself as a non-profit counseling ministry. Here is the…
UK: Niall O’Kane eye patients alerted over lost records
Jade Edwards reports: A copy of patients’ records, which include names, addresses, national insurance numbers and bank account details, has been lost by an optometrist in Strood. The protected back-up copy of Niall O’Kane Optometrists’ patient database was left on a train on Saturday, October 10. Mr O’Kane wrote to patients explaining the situation. In…
NYC Dermatologist Emails Spreadsheet Containing Personal Info for 15K Patients
Ida Siegal reports: When Missy Brown opened her email Monday morning, she was stunned to find a document from her doctor’s office containing personal information for 15,000 names. “I think the subject line said ‘coupon attached,’ and I saw that there was a spreadsheet attachment,” she said. “As soon as I opened it, I saw that…
Ca: Hospital clerk fined $36,000 for selling patient records
Jacques Gallant has a follow-up to a case that I’ve been covering on this site since it was first disclosed: A former Rouge Valley hospital records clerk was fined $36,000 and given two years of probation on Monday for selling thousands of maternity patient records to RESP firms. Shaida Bandali, 62, pleaded guilty earlier this…