CORRECTION: In response to the original post, below, I received the following e-mail from Texas Health: Good morning. Just an FYI that we did notify these patients within the 60-day timeframe. The problem is that in our efforts to keep the press release at the top of our news page and easy for people to…
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Personal laptop with unencrypted information on UCSF Medical Center patients stolen from employee's car
The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center issued this statement yesterday, although you’re unlikely to find it just by visiting the center’s home page: UC San Francisco is alerting some of its patients to the theft of an employee’s laptop computer that held patient information. The security of protected health information at UCSF…
UnityPoint Health notifies 1,800 patients after contractor's employee inappropriately accessed electronic medical records
Business Record reports: Law enforcement personnel are investigating a data breach of West Des Moines-based UnityPoint Health‘s electronic medical records (EMR) system. Personal information of approximately 1,800 hospital patients from across UnityPoint Health’s operating regions may be at risk from the security breach in the system, which was discovered Aug. 8 during the course of…
Ca: Privacy breach reported to patients at Prairie North
John Cairns reports: Letters are going out to 151 patients at Prairie North Health Region informing them of a privacy breach involving their personal information. The employee involved in the breach was not involved in the patients’ medical care, but had improperly accessed the patients’ personal health information between 2009 and 2012, considered a breach…
Santa Clara Valley Medical Center notifying patients after laptop stolen from audiology department
We’re finding out about some healthcare sector breaches from state attorneys general sooner than from HHS, it seems. Sometime during the weekend of September 14 – 15, a laptop with unencrypted patient information was stolen from the Audiology Department at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. The theft was discovered on September 16. The laptop, which…
FL: Holy Cross Hospital patient records breached, possibly for tax refund fraud scheme
Brian Bandell reports: Holy Cross Hospital notified 9,900 of its patients that their personal information might have been breached by an employee who may have intended to commit tax fraud. Patient names, dates of birth, addresses and social security numbers were inappropriately accessed by an employee who has since been terminated, the nonprofit hospital said. This…