Saw this press release today and thought it worth mentioning here for its statistics: Veriphyr, a leading provider of Identity and Access Intelligence, today announced the results of new survey on Protected Health Information (PHI) privacy breaches. According to the findings, more than 70 percent of the organizations in the study have suffered one or…
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Lexington VA Breach Affects 1,900
Joseph Goedert reports: The Lexington (Ky.) VA Medical Center has notified about 1,900 veterans of a breach of their protected health information. An employee without authorization took home on a laptop patient information, including names, dates of birth, medical diagnoses and the last four digits of Social Security numbers, according to a statement from the…
meridianEMR Files Lawsuit Against UroChart and The Shappley Clinic
The following is a press release issued by meridianEMR. Although it is mostly about alleged theft of trade secrets/software, it also includes allegations of risk to patient privacy: meridianEMR®, the Livingston, New Jersey-based market leader in Electronic Health Records (EHR) for Urology, formally announces that on June 16, 2011 it filed a lawsuit against Intuitive Medical Software® (UroChart®),…
New data spill shows risk of online health records – as if we needed yet another reminder?
Jordan Robertson of Associated Press reports: Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire world to see. There were insurance forms, Social Security numbers and doctors’ notes. Among the files were summaries that spelled out, in painstaking detail, a trucker’s crushed fingers, a maintenance worker’s broken…
Mount Sinai Medical Center reports two stolen laptops contained Social Security Numbers and diagnoses
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, notified HHS of a laptop theft on June 7th involving PHI on 712 patients. The hospital posted a public notice on its site on July 11th: Public Notice July 11, 2011 NEW YORK, NY – July 11, 2011 /Press Release/ –– Mount Sinai Multispecialty Physicians Practice announced today that two…
Coding error results in San Mateo Health Plan disclosing members' medical and personal details to other members
The Health Plan of San Mateo (HPSM) in California notified HHS of a breach involving paper records that affected 694 patients. According to a notice prominently linked from the health plan’s home page, a programming error resulted in 700 approval notifications being mailed to the wrong members from April 1 to June 8, 2011: The notifications…