The personal information of about 168,500 patients of the Los Angeles County departments of Health Services and Public Health was stolen during the theft of computer equipment from a firm that contracts with the county, authorities announced today. The theft took place Feb. 5 at the Torrance office of Sutherland Healthcare Solutions, Inc., which contracts…
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Eureka Internal Medicine notifies patients of potential disclosure of their information
Eureka Internal Medicine in Eureka, California notified patients of a HIPAA breach that was discovered in October 2013. According to a notification from their lawyers: From about September 25, 2013, until about October 9, 2013, when it was discovered, a janitorial service for Eureka Internal Medicine, was mixing paper recycling containing patient information with the regular trash at…
Faxes containing patient data breached from Roper Hospital (Updated)
On Feb. 28, a media report, noted on this blog, indicated that a man in Oregon kept receiving faxes with patient data. When he tracked the number down, it seemed that the faxes came from Community Memorial Hospital in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. Contacted by TMJ4 News, the hospital told the reporter that United Healthcare was…
St. Joseph Health notifies patients of HIPAA breach due to failure to redact patient names from file sent to investment firm
St. Joseph Health reports that it experienced a privacy breach on February 18 when an employee neglected to delete a tab in an Excel spread sheet that contained patients’ names before sending the data to an investment firm preparing a proposal for St. Joseph Health. SJH’s letter to those affected explains: St. Joseph Health provides central…
NHS England patient data 'uploaded to Google servers', Tory MP says (Updated)
Update: Now it is being reported that the data were mock data. See image at end of post. Randeep Ramesh reports the latest concerning revelation involving NHS patient records: A prominent Tory MP on the powerful health select committee has questioned how the entire NHS hospital patient database for England was handed over to management…
Sherman, Texas doctor notifying patients after office burglars nabbed computers and hard drives
Ann Smajstrla of The Herald Democrat reports that Dr. J. M. Benson, whose practice is in Sherman Texas, has been notifying patients of a breach that occurred at the beginning of the year. Office staff noticed on Jan. 5 that the office had been broken into, and that computers and one or more hard drives were…