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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a resolution agreement yesterday for Idaho State University’s (ISU) HIPAA violations that date back to Aug. 9, 2011. Because ISU’s Pocatello Family Medicine Clinic exposed 17,500 patients’ data by disabling a firewall more »
There is more patient data exposure news from Buffalo, NY, as following the recent health data breach at DENT Neurologic Institute, the Erie County Comptroller’s office (headed by Stefan I. Mychajliw) reported that paper health records with protected health information more »
News 4 Tucson (KVOA.com) reports that at least eight patients in Tucson, Ariz. have had their medical data compromised after paper health records containing dates of birth, Social Security numbers and health insurance information were found in Tempe, Ariz. A more »
A healthcare chief information officer (CIO) saying that he expects to experience a health data breach is not only unusual, but may produce shock and awe in some parts of the healthcare industry. However, having this type of outlook, regardless more »
After learning of a former employee stealing patient identities, Community Health Med-check in Speedway, Ind. has notified about 180 patients that their data may have been compromised. WISH TV in Indiana reports that the employee (who no longer works at more »
Following problems with patient privacy back in January at Louisiana State University LSU Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) that involved exposed protected health information (PHI), LSUHSC-Shreveport Vice Chancellor Hugh Mighty said that patient privacy policies will be reviewed and revised by more »
While human error is unavoidable from time to time, what healthcare organizations do to minimize the impact of those mistakes with health data goes under the microscope when breaches occur. DENT Neurologic Institute of Amherst, NY recently experienced a data more »
There was yet another unencrypted laptop theft in April, as Indiana University Health Arnett, Inc. told 10,300 affected patients of the health data breach via letter on May 10. The laptop was in an employee’s car and may have contained patient more »
Lutheran Social Services of South Central Pennsylvania recently made 7,300 current and former senior residents aware of a data breach that was discovered in March. According to YorkDispatch.com, the root of the issue was a malware program that the organization’s more »
PHIPrivacy.net reports that the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) informed 537 former orthopaedic patients that their protected health information (PHI) had been compromised in a recent data breach. It was a familiar storyline, as a resident physician lost an unencrypted USB more »
The other shoe has dropped following April’s William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA medical center data breach. The VA medical center had notified 7405 veteran patients in early April that an unprotected laptop with their personal information on the device had been stolen more »
Javelin Strategy & Research performed an independent study on the impact of healthcare data breaches on patients based on last spring’s Utah Medicaid and Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP) cyber data breach. About 500,000 participants were involved in the March more »
Handling healthcare security goes beyond just the technical side, as privacy and security compliance is critical to both data breach prevention and response plans. Experian Data Breach Resolution and the Ponemon Institute released a report today, titled Is Your Company more »
In wake of Glens Falls Hospital’s recent reporting of a 2,300-patient data breach, two patients are going after the hospital, Portal Healthcare Solutions LLC and Carpathia Hosting in a Saratoga County State Supreme Court class-action lawsuit. There is a discrepancy more »
Schneck Medical Center, a Seymour, Ind., hospital reported an inadvertent recent patient data breach on Monday after a Schneck employee included 3,000 patients’ data in a presentation that was later put on the web site of a secondary education institution. more »
Following a recent Yuma, Ari. Fire Department patient data breach, there are more healthcare data security problems in Yuma. More than 500 behavioral and mental health patients have had their data compromised as a result of a thief taking an more »
A federal New York court recently handed out prison sentences to conclude a cringe-worthy 1,000-patient data breach that dates back to 2003. This is a seminal case both because of its egregious nature and the fact that it’s among the more »
Thousands of Blue Cross Blue Shield patients were affected by a patient data stolen from a network server, as the Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Indiana, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Ohio, and Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield of Indiana more »
Will the government slap another government organization on the wrist for a patient data breach? We might find out soon. The William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA medical center alerted 7405 veteran patients on Friday of a recent breach involving an unprotected more »
Erickson Living’s Riderwood physical therapy of Silver Spring, MD reported this week that there were five laptops stolen back in November from Riderwood’s physical therapy offices. Though the number of affected patients is unknown, a key element of the breach more »
The University of Florida (UF) medical clinic announced yesterday that a former medical clinic employee, Arthur Thomas, had breached the data of nearly 15,000 patients as part of an identity theft ring. Thomas was arrested Tuesday, according to The Gainesville more »
United HomeCare Services, Inc. notified 13,617 affected patients via individual letters that a laptop containing information ranging from names and addresses to dates of birth and Social Security numbers back in February. And on Mar. 8, they were all sent more »
Yet another breach involving unencrypted laptops has been announced, this time in Atlanta, Georgia at Women’s Health Enterprise, Inc. of Family Health Enterprise (FHE). Women’s Health Enterprise notified 3,000 patients of FHE’s Breast Health Promotion Program that there had been a health more »
We learned on Mar. 11 that Good Samaritan Hospital of Troy, NY notified about 23 people that their data had been stolen from Rensselaer County Jail’s nurse’s station between 2008 and Nov. 16, 2011, but it turns out there’s more to the more »
The Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) reported in a press release last Friday that it suffered a 652-patient data breach on Feb. 4 when private psychologist contractor’s laptop was stolen. Dr. Sunil Kakar’s laptop was password-protected, but DSHS officials more »
