Privacy Incident Notification for Brigham and Women’s Hospital Patients Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of patient information. Regrettably, this notice concerns an incident involving some of that information. On September 24, 2014, a laptop computer and cell phone were stolen from a BWH physician during an armed…
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No patient privacy breach here – The Daily Journal Editorial Board
The Daily Journal Editorial Board writes that linking to an online story in social media shouldn’t be considered a privacy breach or HIPAA breach, even if the person doing the linking is bound by patient confidentiality and had been involved in the patient’s care. In this case, though, it seems that the employee was suspended not…
UK: Unencrypted data of 45,000 patients shared by south west ambulance bosses despite "no justifiable legal reason" to do so
jrmaidment reports: Ambulance bosses have been criticised after the unencrypted data of more than 45,000 patients was shared with NHS chiefs despite there being “no justifiable legal reason” to do so. South Western Ambulance Service sent seven discs of “descriptive patient data” relating to 45,431 people by recorded delivery to a Clinical Commissioning Group in…
Ca: Patient information found scattered on Toronto street
Marianne Dimain reports: Ontario’s acting privacy commissioner is concerned after documents containing personal patient information were recently found scattered across a Toronto neighbourhood. Dozens of papers with patient names, addresses, phone numbers and social insurance numbers were found near Leslie Street and Sheppard Avenue on Saturday, not far from North York General Hospital. Hospital staff…
NYU Urology Associates notifies patients whose information was sent to a patient in March.
An incident recently added to HHS’s public breach tool involves NYU Urology Associates. According to the log entry, 835 patients were affected by a breach that occurred on February 19, 2014. I was able to locate a statement on NYU’s website about the incident: NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER NOTIFIES PATIENTS OF DATA BREACH October 10,…
Terminated employee continued to access Bon Secours' patients' billing information
When an employee is terminated, their login credentials to vendors’ databases with PHI must also be terminated. How often do you verify that it is actually being terminated properly? Bon Secours Kentucky notified 697 patients that a former employee had improperly accessed their information from a billing database maintained by Athena. In a statement uploaded to…