By CANDA FUQUA Samaritan Health Services is performing an internal investigation into a possible privacy breach after a woman on Tuesday found a stack of unshredded medical documents in an outside trash can behind medical offices on Samaritan Drive. “We take patient privacy very seriously, and it’s currently under investigation to fully evaluate the situation,” […]
Read MoreAuthor Name Patrick Ouellette The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) told the Monroeville 911 dispatch center back in March that it had 30 days after sending a letter on March 21 requesting that an investigation be conducted regarding protected health information (PHI) being exposed to a former police chief. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently obtained a copy of […]
Read MoreBy Mary Zhou In early June, letters were sent to about 4,500 patients of Sutter Health hospitals notifying them of a security breach. Patients from Sutter Delta Medical Center, Eden Medical Center, and Alta Bates Summit Medical Center may have had their personal information leaked, possibly including names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, genders, […]
Read MoreThirty Wagga Base Hospital patients have had their privacy severely compromised after their medical histories were literally thrown to the kerb. Ayb Brown was walking his dog in Estella on Tuesday when he found a confidential piece of paper lying on the side of the road. When he picked it up and unfolded it, he […]
Read MoreLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Five medical workers have been fired over a patient data breach at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Los Angeles facility said in a statement, while celebrity website TMZ reported on Saturday that the hacking effort targeted reality star Kim Kardashian. Cedars-Sinai, a favorite destination for celebrities seeking medical care, said in the […]
Read MoreBy Larry Dignan WellPoint, a managed health care giant, agreed to pay $1.7 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for violating HIPAA regulations. HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, is a set of rules to maintain patient privacy. HIPAA makes health care one of the most regulated […]
Read MoreTexas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth says it is notifying hundreds of thousands of former patients whose personal information on decades-old records turned up in a Dallas park instead of being destroyed by a contractor. Wendell Watson, spokesman for Arlington-based Texas Health Resources, the hospital’s corporate parent, said the mammoth breach involves about 277,000 […]
Read MoreAuthor Name Patrick Ouellette Wedgewood Legacy Medical, a Lincoln, Neb. doctor’s office has alerted 2,125 patients that their protected health information (PHI) has been compromised after a computer chip came off of a thumb drive Dr. James Fosnaugh was wearing on a lanyard around his neck. According to JournalStar.com, no Social Security numbers or financial […]
Read MoreBy Ken Kusmer of The Associated Press Tuesday, July 2, 2013 – 7:53 am INDIANAPOLIS — The personal information of at least 14 Indiana welfare clients was shared with others because of a contractor’s computer programming error, Indiana officials said Monday. The security breach potentially affects more than 187,000 people. The Indiana Family and Social […]
Read MoreSPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – You’d like to think your medical records are safe but the 22News I-Team discovered today a number of personal documents left in a dumpster for anyone to see. We took the files out, brought them to management, and got some answers. “As I was going through the stuff I saw files […]
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