Catherine Martin reports: A Texas man has filed a class-action lawsuit against Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare and its affiliate Baptist Health System after the companies experienced a data breach this year that affected more than a million patients. The lawsuit was filed July 5 in Dallas County on behalf of Troy Contreras, one of about 1.2…
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WY: Former Employee Inappropriately Accessed Cheyenne Regional Medical Center Patient Health Records
Phoenixville Hospital was just one of two reports this week involving employees behaving badly by accessing patient files without a legitimate purpose. On July 6, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center in Wyoming revealed that a former employee had inappropriately accessed several patients’ personal health records between August 31, 2020, and May 26, 2022. In this case,…
PA: Phoenixville Hospital notifying patients after discovering improper EMR access by employee
Despite employers’ best efforts, some employees will just continue to try to snoop in patient files. This time, a covered entity discovered the wrongdoing via their own internal monitoring. Phoenixville Hospital, operated by Tower Health, reports that a recent review detected that an employee had accessed a patient’s electronic medical records (EMR) without any apparent…
Jp: Information of 111,191 patients and 715 employees at Kokikai Yasue Hospital leaked
Tatsuki Matsuura reports on what sounds like it might be a ransomware attack. Here’s a machine translation of how the report begins: Kokikai Yasue Hospital (Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture) announced on July 4 that the personal information of patients and new Corona vaccine vaccinated patients may have been leaked up to 111,991 due to unauthorized…
Professional Finance Company, Inc. is providing breach notifications to patients of 657 covered entities
So this one could be another big one: Professional Finance Company, Inc. (“PFC”), an accounts receivable management company that provides assistance to various organizations (including healthcare providers), announced today that it is notifying individuals whose information may have been involved in a recent network security incident. On February 26, 2022, PFC detected and stopped a sophisticated…
Patient information compromised in OrthoNebraska data breach
Omaha World-Herald reports: A December 2021 data breach put some OrthoNebraska patients’ personal and health information at risk, according to a statement released by the health organization Thursday. In early December 2021, an unauthorized individual or individuals gained access to an OrthoNebraska email account, sent out spam messages and gained access to protected personal and…