Today’s update to HHS’s public breach tool sheds light on some previously reported breaches and over half a dozen new ones: The armed robbery of a Brigham and Women’s Hospital physician impacted 999 patients. Newly Revealed: North Big Horn Hospital in Wyoming reported that 1,607 patients were affected by a breach on October 2nd involving…
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Pharmacy board's actions raise questions about ethics, patient privacy, safety
John Russell reports: A powerful member of the Indiana Board of Pharmacy was quietly involved in discussions with state pharmacy regulators about a $100 million project that benefited his employer — Walgreens pharmacies. And now a government watchdog group and a labor federation say those actions not only violated state ethics laws, but have allowed…
Forbes Breach Email Statistics
Total of 1,056,986 E-mail’s Found are unique. Total of 111,735 E-mail Providers 564 FORBES.COM 844 .GOV 14,572 .EDU Below is a list of all email providers that have 2 or more in the breach. (full list here) Article: https://datalossdb.org gmail.com: [407769] yahoo.com: [181617] hotmail.com: [86667] aol.com: [25032] justafou.com: [20092] asertol1.co.tv: [17472] comcast.net: [11368] live.com: [9842] xamog.com:…
Follow-up: Can a clinic be held liable for employee's bad acts?
And speaking of how much a health care facility can do about a rogue employee and whether they are responsible or liable, there is an update to a case I first noted here in 2011 involving a Guthrie Healthcare System clinic in Corning, New York. In that case, a nurse willfully disclosed a patient’s information on…
HHS update to breach tool shows laptop theft is not a thing of the past, Part 1
HHIS updated its breach tool this week, adding a baker’s dozen of incidents. Significantly, 6 of the 13 involved stolen laptops while 3 others involved theft or loss of electronic devices. Two of the 13 incidents were already known through either media coverage or reports to a state’s attorney general. In both cases, HHS’s breach…
Does being coy with the media pay or does the lack of transparency hurt reputation more?
Personally, I detest it when entities won’t disclose any many people were notified or affected by a breach. It’s one of the few times that I think the “nothing to hide” argument applies. When it comes to healthcare sector breaches affecting more than 500, refusal to disclose to the media makes even less sense to…