There’s a follow-up to a breach lawsuit involving an employee of Guthrie Health System who shared a patients’ sensitive medical information with a third party – and privacy advocates will not be happy. As I first noted in March 2011, “John Doe” sued Guthrie Health System after a nurse sent embarrassing text messages about his…
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Dentrix claims it encrypts their data, but does it?
A few weeks ago, I had no idea what Dentrix software was. Now I’ve seen it mentioned in connection with two recent breaches involving PHI (the first one was this breach, involving an older version of Dentrix). Such coincidences often get my attention. Dr. Rob Meaglia is a dentist in Rocklin, California. According to his December…
HHS updates breach tool, Part 2: it's news to me
Today’s update to HHS’s breach tool included a number of incidents that I had not known about: Servicios Medicos Integrados de Fajardo in Puerto Rico reported that T & P Consulting, Inc. d/b/a Quantum Health Consulting reported lost device(s) with PHI on 10,000. The incident occurred on January 11, 2012, and I had already entered…
HHS updates breach tool, Part 1: many older incidents newly added
Okay, so HHS decided to give me a migraine by adding no less than 37 breach incidents to its public breach tool today. I suspect, but cannot be certain, that my repeated inquiries to them about breach reports not showing up in a timely fashion – the last such inquiry a few days ago –…
Two University of Florida breaches in 2013 that I seem to have missed
Just stumbled across these while searching for something else and I don’t recall ever seeing them before – from UF’s web site: UF Beaches Women’s Health Specialists Lab Tests Inadvertently Sent to Baptist Medical Center Published: July 15th, 2013 The University of Florida (UF) is notifying 142 patients of the University of Florida Beaches Women’s Health…
Lawsuit against Omnicell dismissed
I’ve blogged about the Omnicell breach of November 2012 a number of times on this blog as new information emerged about who was affected by the breach. As a quick reminder, a laptop with unencrypted PHI was stolen from an employee’s car. Omnicell is a business associate of numerous hospitals, providing them with medication dispensing/pharmacy…