Anna Gorman and Abby Sewell report that five employees and a student research assistant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have been fired for inappropriately accessing 14 medical records in a one-week period last month. Four were employees of community physicians who have medical staff privileges at the hospital, one was a medical assistant employed by Cedars-Sinai, and…
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CA: Long Beach Memorial Medical Center discloses insider breach affecting 2,864 patients
Karen Robes Meeks reports: The private information of nearly 3,000 Long Beach Memorial Medical Center patients may have been breached by an employee, the hospital announced Thursday. The hospital notified the 2,864 patients who were seen from September 2012 to last month of the breach of information, which included name, sex, date of birth, home…
Notice Regarding Microfiche Incident for Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth Patients (UPDATED)
Update: The Star-Telegram reports that 277,000 are being notified of this breach. Original post: Texas Health Resources posted the following notice on their site. Unfortunately, the home page link simply says “Microfiche Incident” and does not alert site visitors to check that link for an important privacy breach notification: Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort…
HIV Patients Refused Medical Privacy by the University of California, in Spite …
It may not violate HIPAA to use a patient’s first and last name when staff call patients to come into the exam room from the waiting room, but it can sure cause privacy problems. Read HIV Patients Refused Medical Privacy by the University of California, in Spite … Here’s the background: Alex went to see his…
Clients discover security breach on insurance carrier’s patient portal
Jenny Anchondo reports from Indianapolis: A security breach with a local health insurance company has been exposing members’ home addresses, cell phone numbers, prescriptions and extensive medical information in an online portal. The company had no clue about the issue, until Fox 59 notified them. So how many people might have been impacted? Fox 59…
NE: PHI on 2,125 patients was on chip that fell out of a thumb drive on a lanyard
From the Lincoln Journal Star: They emptied vacuum cleaner bags. Scoured the office. Nothing. Somehow, somewhere, sometime in May, a computer chip containing medical records for more than 2,000 of a Lincoln doctor’s patients went missing — likely having slipped from the thumb drive Dr. James Fosnaugh wore on a lanyard around his neck. Fosnaugh’s office,…