From the Chronicle of Data Protection (which happens to be a good blog to add to your watch list if you’re privacy-oriented): … the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) published a request for information (“RFI”) regarding the HITECH accounting of disclosures provisions. The Department is collecting information to help inform its rulemaking. Building on…
UK: Health records found in Asda car park
A computer memory stick containing the sensitive information was found by a 12-year-old boy outside an Asda store. It reportedly contained the criminal histories of some violent patients as well as details about staff at the Tryst Park unit at Bellsdyke Hospital. The centre provides care for adults with severe mental health problems. Read more…
Stolen Millennium Medical Management Resources drive contained PII and PHI on 180,111
Health records belonging to patients were stolen in a break-in at a suburban medical billing company. Patients are now being notified about the security breech (sic). Police tell ABC7 the records were on a portable hard drive and stolen from the Westmont office of Millennium Medical Management Resources. It happened back in February. The company…
MO: Documents Full Of Personal Info Found In Dumspster
Teresa Woodard reports: Thousands of documents containing personal, confidential information were discovered in a North St. Louis dumpster. It is the kind of data that could lead to hundreds, if not thousands of cases of identity theft. But there’s no way to know how it got there, or who put it there. […] “I got…
IL: Patients' medical records stolen at suburban company (UPDATE 3)
Health records belonging to patients were stolen in a break-in at a suburban medical billing company. Patients are now being notified about the security breech. Police tell ABC7 the records were on a portable hard drive and stolen from the Westmont office of Millennium Medical Management Resources. It happened back in February. The company handles…
MO: Documents Full Of Personal Info Found In Dumspster
Teresa Woodard reports: Thousands of documents containing personal, confidential information were discovered in a North St. Louis dumpster. It is the kind of data that could lead to hundreds, if not thousands of cases of identity theft. But there’s no way to know how it got there, or who put it there. […] “I got…