Hunton & Williams write: On August 7, 2014, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia held in Travelers Indemnity Company of America v. Portal Healthcare Solutions, LLC, No. 1:13-cv-917 (E.D. Va. Aug. 7, 2014), that online posting of patient medical information constituted “publication,” whether or not it was viewed by a third…
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Virginia federal court holds that online posting of patient medical information constitutes “publication” sufficient to trigger a general liability insurer’s duty to defend
Hunton & Williams write: On August 7, 2014, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia held in Travelers Indemnity Company of America v. Portal Healthcare Solutions, LLC, No. 1:13-cv-917 (E.D. Va. Aug. 7, 2014), that online posting of patient medical information constituted “publication,” whether or not it was viewed by a third…
Long Beach Internal Medical Group patients also victimized by two rogue Iron Mountain employees
I wouldn’t recommend starting a breach notification letter with “Please take notice that,” but in light of what follows, maybe it was appropriate in this case. It seems that Orthopaedic Specialty Institute wasn’t the only entity that had patient records that had been stored with Iron Mountain stolen. Long Beach Internal Medical Group posted a…
Ca: Newfoundland health authority says botched fax breached privacy of 52 patients
Faxing errors continue to contribute to privacy breaches. The Canadian Press reports: Newfoundland and Labrador’s second largest health authority is apologizing to 52 patients for a privacy breach it blames on a botched fax number. Central Health Authority says medical information was mistakenly faxed as an email to a 1-800 number instead of a 1-866 number….
BioReference Laboratories notified over 3,000 patients after misconfigured server allowed their info to be indexed by search engines
Recently added to HHS’s public breach tool was a misconfigured server incident that affected 3,334 patients. The entity’s statement was posted on their web site: We at BioReference Laboratories, Inc., and our subsidiary CareEvolve, Inc., take very seriously our responsibility to protect the privacy and security of our patients’ personal information, as required by the…
UK: New patient privacy threat at sexual health clinics
Charlie Cooper reports: Patients will be put off visiting sexual health clinics, leading to a rise in sexually transmitted infections, if the Government removes legal safeguards in a controversial shake-up of privacy laws, medical charities say. Strict confidentiality regulations are being dropped because the NHS organisations they apply to were abolished in the Government’s controversial…