Scott Graham reports: Sutter Medical Foundation did not violate California’s medical confidentiality act—and expose itself to potentially $4 billion in statutory damages—when a thief stole a computer containing 4 million patients’ medical records, the Third District Court of Appeal ruled Monday. The state’s medical privacy statute was not triggered because there’s no evidence the thief…
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Johns Hopkins settles privacy breach lawsuit for $190M
Back in February 2013, we learned of a horrific privacy breach in which a gynecologist had been secretly recording his female patients. His conduct had been reported to the hospital by a female co-worker and he was fired. The files were found in his home after he committed suicide. In March of 2013, some of his…
California highway patrol seizes records of woman beaten by officer
Associated Press reports: California Highway Patrol investigators have seized the medical records of a woman seen on video being repeatedly punched by one of its officers on the side of a Los Angeles freeway. Chris Arevalo, executive administrator for psychiatric services at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, confirmed that the CHP served the search warrant…
Penn Medicine Rittenhouse has data breach
Stacey Burling reports: Penn Medicine Tuesday announced a data breach involving receipts from Penn Medicine Rittenhouse that were stolen last month from a locked office in Pennsylvania Hospital. Notifications of the theft were sent to 661 patients Monday, said Susan Phillips, a senior vice president and spokeswoman for the health system. […] The receipts did…
Computer equipment stolen in overnight break-in at Lincoln surgery
CJHall_LE reports: Detectives are investigating an overnight burglary at a GP surgery in uphill Lincoln, where computer equipment was stolen. It happened at the Cliff House Medical Practice, near to the Museum of Lincolnshire Life. Read more on Lincolnshire Echo. It’s not clear from the report whether any patient info.
Minneapolis VA reports Shakopee clinic breach of privacy
According to a news release from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, an informational letter regarding the opening of the Minneapolis VA Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) in Shakopee was recently mailed to 500 veterans with the name and address of a different veteran inadvertently duplexed, or printed, onto the back side of the letter. The Minneapolis VA…