The Touchstone Medical Imaging breach has been added to HHS’s public breach tool, and it’s larger than than you might have thought: 307,528 patients were affected by the incident that inadvertently shared a folder with patient billing information. Although the breach was discovered on May 9 and affected patient billing records related to dates prior…
Ca: Mayor Rob Ford's privacy breached, hospital says
Tara Deschamps reports: Two Mount Sinai Hospital staff members breached privacy when they “inappropriately accessed” Mayor Rob Ford’s health records, the hospital said today. Read more on The Toronto Star. To their credit, the hospital discovered the breach through their own internal mechanisms. They do not say, however, what disciplinary action the two staff members…
Cyber-Sleuth or Cyber-Thief? LabMD Case Continues to Expose the Good, the Bad, and the Downright Ugly in Cyber-Security Developments
Over on HIPAA, HITECH, and HIT, Elizabeth Litten comments on FTC’s administrative case against LabMD, a case I’ve been following here for the past few years. After recapping the case, she writes: This case isn’t over, and it remains to be seen whether [Administrative Law Judge] Chappell will find the witness’s testimony credible and/or relevant…
Cover Oregon investigates another security breach
Gosia Wozniacka of AP reports: A Klamath Falls woman who applied for health coverage through Cover Oregon says the insurance exchange mailed her the personal information of other applicants. Ann Migliaccio (mil-YAH’-choh) told The Associated Press that she received documents last week containing the names and birth dates of two applicants from Hillsboro. She says the…
KY: Jefferson Co. deletes sensitive info from records
It took them about 4 years and $400,000, but Jefferson County in Kentucky has purged public documents that are available online of residents’ Social Security numbers and other information that could be used for identify theft. WDRB has the story. Good for them!
MN: Ex-Mayo Clinic exec accused of stealing trade secrets
Jeff Kiger reports: A former top Mayo Clinic executive is being sued for allegedly hiding his hiring by a competitor of Mayo Medical Laboratories for months while he continued to work for Mayo while stealing trade secrets. Mayo Clinic filed a lawsuit alleging misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of contract against Dr. Franklin R. Cockerill…