In a HealthcareITNews article on a recent breach, Erin McCann included this eye-catching statement: Out of the more than 80,000 HIPAA breach cases OCR has received since 2003, only 17 of them have resulted in fines thus far. To paraphrase Einstein, HHS might do well to remember that if they keep doing what they’ve always done,…
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UK: 800 NHS data breaches in five years
There have been more than 800 incidents of data loss by health boards in the last five years, new figures have revealed. They include patient notes being found in public places within NHS buildings, documents left in car parks and public transport, and personal information being sent to the wrong address. Figures obtained by the…
Accretive Health Settles FTC Charges That It Failed to Adequately Protect Consumers’ Personal Information
From the FTC, a follow-up on a breach that was first disclosed in September 2011, and that I’ve covered a number of times on PHIprivacy.net (see these articles). Regular readers may recall that Accretive was also sued by Minnesota’s Attorney General. That suit settled for $2.5 million in July 2012. Accretive Health, Inc., a company that…
Potential class action lawsuit filed over missing Kaiser flash drive
Where there’s a breach, there’s often a lawsuit. Barbara Wallace of Courthouse News reports: A flash drive holding the confidential medical records of almost 49,000 Kaiser patients was stolen, exposing their names and other information, a class claims in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Central District Court. Ginger Buck brought a class action…
This doesn't bode well… (UPDATED)
UPDATE of Dec. 28: The medical center now states that there was NO patient data on the stolen computer. Good news, indeed! Original post: Four days after a computer was stolen from Inspira Medical Center Vineland, the hospital still can’t say whether there was any patient data on it? That’s absurd. Just ask the staff…
Response by Adult & Pediatric Dermatology to settlement with HHS
I was originally pointing readers to HealthITSecurity.com for APDerm’s statement, but I just checked email and see that APDerm sent me their statement, so I’m reproducing it here: December 27, 2013 – Along with protecting our patients’ health and safety, protecting their privacy is our highest priority. In 2011, we were victims of a crime and…