Patrick Ouellette writes: Because of the prevalence of medical identity fraud in the healthcare industry, healthcare providers are beginning to think outside of the box as to how to keep their patients’ data private. San Francisco physician Paul Abramson has made headlines of late for allowing patients to pay for services using Bitcoin, a decentralized…
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Two laptops with PHI stolen from UHS-Pruitt employees' cars in a two-week period
One of the breaches added to HHS’s public breach list today gave me a bit of a headache. Well, to be honest, they generally all give me a headache, but this one took me time to sort out. And although I may have a headache now, I suspect UHS-Pruitt may have a bigger headache. It…
NY: Martin Luther King Jr. Health Center learns of subcontractor's breach four years later, responds to breach admirably
The Martin Luther King Jr. Health Center (MLK) in the Bronx, New York, recently notified 37,000 patients of a security breach that occurred in 2009. The incident was just added to HHS’s breach list today. I was unable to find any media coverage of the breach, but found a notice on the center’s web site that…
Update to HHS's breach list (update 1)
HHS added 16 breach reports to its public breach tool today, bringing the counter of breaches each affecting 500 or more individuals to 736 since HITECH went into effect September 23, 2009. As I’ve done in the past, I’ll begin by noting which of the additions we already knew about, annotated if there’s anything new…
Pointer: Lanap and Implant Center breach
For those of you who haven’t caught on that I have a slew of other breach reports over on PHIprivacy.net, I thought I’d give you a pointer to a really horrific breach I’ve been covering over there this week. It involves 11,000 patients’ data (yes, including SSN and DOB) winding up on a torrent site…
N.M. Case Tests How Far CEs Must Go to Meet the Demands of Law Enforcement
AIS Health has an article on a troubling case previously discussed on this blog involving two Gila Medical Center physicians who cooperated with police requests for increasingly invasive body searches of a man suspected of hiding drugs in his body. The article begins: Hospital privacy officers on the job long enough have their share of…