The University of Vermont Health Network – Elizabethtown Community Hospital takes seriously the privacy and confidentiality of our patients’ information. Regrettably, this notice is regarding an incident involving some of that information. We are notifying individuals potentially affected by a recent data security incident in which, for a brief period of time, an employee’s email…
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Curry Health Network notifies members of FastHealth breach
Last month, this site noted a FastHealth breach from 2017 that was first being disclosed. FastHealth had reported it to HHS as impacting 1,345 patients. Now Curry Health Network is notifying its members, and it’s not totally clear if these members were included in the number that had been previously reported to HHS. DataBreaches.net emailed FastHealth…
Einstein Health Network notifies 3,000 patients after web exposure of information
Justin Heinze reports: Einstein Healthcare Network may have suffered a data breach, they announced Thursday, and they are sending letters home to patients that may have been effected. The incident involved a website database containing patient information entered into Einstein’s website “Request for Information” form, Einstein said. Read more on Norristown Patch. EHN posted…
TX: Emergence Health Network notifies 11,100 mental health patients of possible PHI breach
First, their press release: (El Paso, Texas October 16, 2015) Emergence Health Network (EHN) is in the process of contacting individuals regarding an unauthorized disclosure of protected health information. An EHN computer server was compromised in August through an unauthorized internet connection. The affected computer server was disabled to minimize a compromise. It is not…
IN: Community Health Network patient test results missing
Jordan Fischer reports: Hundreds of patients’ test results went missing last month from a Community Health Network office, the hospital network announced Friday. In February, the staff at Physician Network Practice, located in the 2000 block of North Shadeland Avenue, noticed a binder with results had disappeared. The binder contained more than 600 hemoglobin and…
Vitalité Health Network finally informs patients of long-running privacy breach one year after discovering it?
CBC News reports: The Vitalité Health Network is informing some patients their personal medical records were accessed without authorization. The privacy breach was discovered a year ago. A doctor with the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre gained unauthorized access to the files using two hospital computers between Sept. 6, 2010 and Nov. 30, 2012, the letter signed by…