Nathan Freed Wessler of the ACLU writes: I will be in federal district court in Oregon today for oral argument in the ACLU’s challenge to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s practice of obtaining Oregon patients’ confidential prescription records without a warrant. We represent patients and a doctor whose prescriptions are tracked in the Oregon Prescription Drug Monitoring Program…
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OH: Southwest General Health Center notifies obstetrical study participants after binder with PHI lost
Brie Zeitner reports from Cleveland, Ohio: Southwest General Health Center is notifying about 480 patients who were part of an obstetrics study that some of their private information was recently lost, including names, clinical information, data on births and medical record numbers. The data was included in one binder, according to the health system, and the…
What Happens in the Hospital Doesn’t Stay in the Hospital
Melissa Jayne Kinsey compiles some cases where medical personnel breached patient privacy by their use of social media – sometimes intentionally. Read her article on Slate.
Update on Phoebe Putney Hospital breach
WALB is just all over a breach involving Phoebe Putney Hospital in Georgia that was disclosed yesterday. Today, WALB reports that two employees have been fired over the breach, which the hospital still hasn’t described as a theft: Phoebe officials say a computer forensics investigation showed only 13 people’s social security numbers were recorded on that…
More on today's HHS update: newly disclosed incidents
The remainder of today’s HHS update consists of breaches I did not previously cover on this blog. I’ve added details where I can find them. If there are no details, it means I looked, but couldn’t find anything yet. If you can add/provide details, please e-mail this site. Metcare of Florida, Inc reported that 2,557 were…
Today's HHS update included 16 incidents we already knew about
Working through the latest updates to HHS’s breach tool, the following are incidents where we already knew something about the breach. Once again, some of these entries refer to breaches that occurred in 2012, and I have no idea why HHS didn’t post these publicly before now. Links are to previous coverage on this blog…