Christopher Rowland reports that Full Circle Health Care in Maine found itself locked out of its own patients’ records after a fee dispute with CompuGroup, a German corporation with U.S. headquarters in Boston. Read about this situation on Boston Globe, and then take another look at your vendor/business associate contracts. Could this happen to you?…
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Cook County Health & Hospitals System notifies hundreds of patients that email with PHI was sent without encryption
On September 17, Cook County Health & Hospitals System posted a breach notification on their site: As part of a collaborative public health project, an individual working on behalf of CCHHS sent an e-mail to an authorized individual at a non-Cook County healthcare organization in July 2014. The transmitted information contained protected health information that…
Ca: Stolen laptop contained info on hundreds of patients
Peter Chura reports that Winnipeg health officials are blaming a lapse in security for the theft of a laptop containing 322 hepatology patients’ confidential information. The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority announced Friday that a doctor’s laptop was stolen “recently” from an office at the Health Sciences Centre. Read more on Global News.
Burglars steal ENT patients' information
Irving Coppell Ear, Nose And Throat, dba ENT Partners of Texas has notified 789 patients of a HIPAA breach involving theft of their information. In a press release posted on their web site, they write that on July 11, burlars broke through a locked metal exterior door and a locked interior office to where two…
Aventura Hospital notifies 82,601 patients of possible data theft; third theft incident in 2 years
A breach entry added to HHS’s public breach tool last week reveals that 82,601 Aventura Hospital and Medical Center patients may have had their identity information stolen by an employee of their business associate, Valesco Ventures. At the time of this publication, there is no statement or notification on Aventura’s web site. PHIprivacy.net was, however, able to find a Legal Notice published in…
McKesson subsidiary exposed over 10,000 patients' information via Google search; data exposed for more than 4 months
PST Services, a McKesson subsidiary providing medical billing services, reportedly had a breach that impacted multiple clients and left more than 10,000 patients’ information exposed via Google search for over four months. The full scope of the breach has yet to be determined. Based on HHS’s public breach tool, it appears that the breach occurred on December 1, 2013 and affected 24…