A Florissant orthodontist’s office has informed 10,000 people that their personal information could be compromised because of a break-in and burglary at its offices in July. Olson & White Orthodontics, which also has offices in O’Fallon, Mo., was burglarized on July 22. Thieves took computers containing personal data, including patient health information, according to Armstrong […]
Read MoreAuthor Name Patrick Ouellette Following an unsecured protected health information (PHI) breach, HIPAA covered entities must provide breach notifications to patients, the Secretary, and the media if 500+ patients are affected. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) also stipulates that business associates (BAs) must notify covered entities that a breach has occurred. Anyone from a […]
Read MoreBy Jaikumar Vijayan Organizations handling protected health information (PHI) have until Sept. 23 to comply with new security and privacy requirements that were included in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009. After that date, all covered entities, including online storage vendors and cloud service providers, will be subject […]
Read MoreFour unencrypted computers at a Park Ridge, Ill.-based administrative office of 200-site Advocate Medical Group serving the Chicago region were stolen during a burglary on July 15, and the Chicago Tribune reports that four million patients could be affected. To Read More Click here: http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/breach-notification-hipaa-privacy-security-advocate-chicago-46515-1.html
Read MoreAuthor Name Patrick Ouellette A state Attorney General alliance recently wrote a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius with apprehension that the new health insurance exchange “navigators” that open for enrollment on Oct. 1, 2013 may compromise patients’ data safety. This letter, sent Aug. 14, followed a letter sent […]
Read MoreBy Stephen Adams A secret plan to sell confidential medical records to private companies for as little as £1 has been drawn up by officials. From next month, GPs will start sending detailed NHS patient records to a central database for the first time under the new General Practice Extraction Service (GPES). Yet doctors do […]
Read MoreNEW YORK (MainStreet)—It’s as creepy as fraud gets. While you are sipping a latte in Williamsburg, across the river on Park Avenue your health insurance card is picking up the tab for five figures worth of elective surgery and maybe another $1,000 in prescriptions and health aids like crutches. The patient is you, with just […]
Read MoreBy Dave Herndon MELVINDALE — Police officers recovered hundreds, if not thousands, of income tax returns and medical records out of a pair of paper recycling bins Wednesday afternoon. The records were discovered at about 1 p.m. by an Allen Park resident who was disposing of old newspapers into the bins behind St. Mary Magdalen […]
Read MoreArticle written by: Randeep Ramesh, Paul Dinsdale The retired garden historian’s experience is a cautionary one for NHS patients who think they control what’s on their medical records. In a pilot scheme NHS England recently began quietly uploading patient records from 100 GP surgeries, although the information commissioner warned the health service “there is still […]
Read MoreJuly 22 X-rays possibly containing personal information about 15,417 Henry Ford Health System patients were stolen from a Detroit warehouse in May, according to a letter the hospital system sent to patients earlier this month. Thieves may have taken the X-rays because of the silver that is contained in them, according to the letter. Silver, […]
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