Here’s one we may not see on HHS’s public breach list, depending on how many patients were involved. 21st Century Oncology Services, an affiliate of Peninsula Cancer Care Center and 21st Century Oncology of Maryland, notified the Maryland Attorney General in July that they had been informed by federal law enforcement of an insider breach…
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Tri-State Surgical Associates notifies patients of a disclosure breach
Tri-State Surgical Associates in Elkton, Maryland recently notified patients of a disclosure breach involving their PHI. According to a letter sent by Drs. Lowe and Vaidy, when a physician left their practice in May, he reportedly asked a staff employee for patient contact information so that he could notify patients of his new practice location….
Missing Allscripts backup drive held Mercy Health Systems patient information
It seems that Baltimore-based Mercy Health Systems (Mercy Medical Center) forgot to notify Maryland about a breach involving Maryland residents earlier this year. According to an August 13 letter signed by Chante Tindal, Compliance Generalist: on January 14, MHS’s transcription contractor, Allscripts, reported a missing unencrypted hard drive containing patient information. MHS says this was reported…
Kaiser Permanente lawsuit against former business associate dismissed, but are patient data still at risk?
If you’re a privacy professional or information security professional looking for a cautionary tale or a nightmare case to use in your presentations, this may be it. In reading about this case, however, keep in mind that there has never been any indication that patient misinformation was disclosed improperly or that it has been misused….
Pairing patient privacy with health big data analytics
Patrick Ouellette reports: Health privacy and security are often mentioned in tandem, but Deborah Peel, Founder and Chair of Patient Privacy Rights and Adrian Gropper, Chief Technology Officer of Patient Privacy Rights, took a different view in a recent Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2) webcast. The presentation, titled “Competing for Patient Trust and Data…
Will providers deny patient requests to email medical records?
Tom Sullivan writes: As a self-described “rabble rouser” Brian Ahier plans to ask his doctor to send a medical record to a free e-mail account, if only to see what happens, after the omnibus HIPAA Final Rule on Privacy and Security kicks in. “It’s obviously not the biggest thing in the omnibus rule but it’s…