Today’s Los Angeles Times covers a situation I discussed yesterday involving Kaiser Permanente and Surefile Filing Systems*. Because Chad Terhune’s report involves statements by Stephan Dean, owner of Surefile, some of its details may appear to contradict what I reported yesterday. In actuality, the “he said – they said” nature of the reporting simply emphasizes…
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Breaking up is hard to do: Kaiser Permanente sues former business associate for return of information
In June of 2012, I mentioned a dispute between Kaiser and one of its former business associates, Surefile Filing Systems. At that time, Chris Rauber had reported: “Kaiser handed over to me several hundred thousand patient records without a written contract” in 2008 and the following year, said Stephan Dean, who owns Surefile with his wife,…
Shades of 2003: Have contractors started holding individuals’ PII hostage again?
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen any report that a contractor or their employees were holding an organization’s client or patient data hostage as part of a dispute. To my surprise, however, there have been two such reports like that recently. One case is in the healthcare sector and I’ll be blogging about…
Docs lack access to psychiatric records
Bernie Monegain reports: Medical centers that elect to keep psychiatric files private and separate from the rest of a person’s medical record may be doing their patients a disservice, a Johns Hopkins study concludes. In a survey of psychiatry departments at 18 of the top American hospitals as ranked by U.S. News & World Report’s…
Three more breaches I stumbled across
Occasionally I just pop a different search string into Google to see if it reveals any breaches I didn’t know about. Here are three breaches I stumbled across, none of which seem to have been listed on HHS’s breach tool: The first find was a vendor breach affecting Mission Hospital that they disclosed to patients in…
Reducing insider breaches – what works?
Over the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to talk to a number of people in different organizations who are concerned with insider breaches in the health care sector. One of those people is Kurt Long, CEO and Founder of FairWarning, a firm that provides patient privacy monitoring (privacy breach detection) systems. So, here’s a…