Nursing Careers Allied Health has an article on patient privacy breaches when health care professionals use social media. Perhaps the most concerning finding of the study they discuss is that most nurses did not even think that what they were doing was a breach of privacy. From the article: In the Nursing Times study, 27 per…
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WA: 90,000 patients of notified of breach after employee opened an email attachment with malware
You can warn and warn employees about not opening email attachments, but despite your best efforts, they do. And to make matters worse, you were storing Social Security numbers and they weren’t encrypted? The University of Washington Medicine posted this announcement on their site yesterday: November 27, 2013 Seattle — In early October 2013, a…
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Privacy Breach Prompts Warning to Patients
Deanna Garcia reports: UPMC is alerting nearly 1,300 people treated at various UPMC locations over the past year that their records were viewed inappropriately. The now former employee at UPMC McKeesport was not involved in the care of the patients and therefore should not have been looking at their information. “Another employee called it to…
FL: Patient data may have been leaked, doctors group warns
Josh Salmon reports: A physicians group with offices throughout Southwest Florida has notified 4,400 patients that their protected health information may have been breached. An employee at Florida Digestive Health Specialists LLP improperly accessed and photographed some personal patient records that included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and telephone numbers, according to the…
Kaiser Foundation Hospital Orange County – Anaheim Medical Center notifying patients of breach
Kaiser Foundation Hospital Orange County – Anaheim Medical Center is notifying patients of a breach that occurred on September 25. In a letter signed by Julie Miller-Phipps, Senior Vice President, Executive Director of Kaiser Foundation Hospital Orange County, patients were informed that Kaiser Permanente was notified on on September 25 that a flash drive containing patients’ names,…
UCSF notifying 8,294 gastroenterology patients whose PII and PHI were on laptop stolen from doctor's car
Statement from UCSF: UC San Francisco is alerting some individuals to the theft of a physician’s personal laptop computer that contained personal and health information. While the physician believed the laptop was encrypted, this could not be confirmed. As a result, the individuals involved are being notified. The security of protected health information at UCSF…