Haley Chiropractic of Tacoma experienced an office burglary in May that resulted in the theft of three computers containing 6,000 patients’ records. The records included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, diagnosis, and health insurance information. One of the computers held some range and motion test data without other personal information. No financial or…
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Beverly Hospital courier loses patients’ lab forms
Paul Leighton reports: A courier for Beverly Hospital last month lost lab request forms for 54 patients that included names, health insurance identification numbers and, in some cases, Social Security numbers. The courier misplaced the forms, which were in a zippered bag along with other records, “somewhere between Beverly and Gloucester,” according to a notification…
Army: Patient IDs wrongly trashed at Fort Rucker base hospital in Alabama
AP reports: The military says as many as 2,300 patients are affected by a breach of personal information at the Lyster Army Health Clinic at Fort Rucker. Paper records with the names and Social Security numbers of patients were tossed into a recycling bin at the southeast Alabama base on July 2. The Army says no…
SC: Self Regional Healthcare notifies patients of breach
Self Regional Healthcare has posted a notice on its web site concerning a data security incident: On May 27, 2014, Self Regional employees discovered that two unauthorized individuals broke into one of its facilities and stole a laptop belonging to SRH. The theft occurred on Sunday, May 25, 2014. Upon learning of the burglary, SRH contacted…
Are Patient Privacy Laws Being Misused to Protect Medical Centers?
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, July 24, 2014, 11:30 a.m. This story was co-published with NPR’s “Shots” blog. In the name of patient privacy, a security guard at a hospital in Springfield, Missouri, threatened a mother with jail for trying to take a photograph of her own son. In the name of patient privacy , a…
Specialized Eye Care notifies patients after unscrupulous employee copied and misused payment information
Here’s one that likely won’t show up on HHS’s public breach tool because of the numbers involved, but it’s an insider breach. Specialized Eye Care in Baltimore discovered that one of its employees stole the checking account information (name, address, routing and account number) of approximately 28 patients and the credit card information of approximately…