April 08, 2013
Last week, hospital officials began notifying patients of the February theft.
April 05, 2013
The records were stored by storage provider working with Glens Falls Hospital in New York.
The psychologist was a private contractor for Washington's Department of Social and Health Services.
April 01, 2013
Health providers have pressing reasons to now embrace security, says INTEGRIS Health's John Delano. Karen Epper Hoffman reports.
March 25, 2013
Officials at the University of Mississippi Medical Center posted an online notice, saying they had "insufficient contact information" to individually notify those potentially compromised.
Sen. Stuart Reid (R-Utah) began drafting the bill last year, following a massive breach in the state of nearly 800,000 Medicaid records.
Cbr Systems, a California registry that collects and stores umbilical cord blood and tissue, will face biennial audits for the next 20 years.
Earlier this month, an unencrypted laptop was stolen from the car of a physician at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security rules undergo their biggest changes since the legislation was passed in 1996.
This time, an employee for a Medicaid contractor lost an unencrypted USB drive containing personal data.
Researchers have exploited critical vulnerabilities in two popular medical management platforms used in a host of services, including assisting surgeries and generating patient reports.
More than six months after the incident, affected individuals were notified of the breach at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chapel Hill, N.C.
The personal information of patients at three health systems in Virginia, New Jersey and Michigan was exposed.
The Hospice of North Idaho will pay $50,000 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services following a breach that affected 441 patients -- an indication that the agency is not letting even small incidents slide.
A laptop, stolen from a hospital employee's home, could have included the sensitive data of nearly 30,000 patients.
The California Medical Assistance Program (Medi-Cal) accidentally posted online the sensitive information of several thousand individuals.
A recent survey from the Ponemon Institute and ID Experts found that breaches are costing the health care industry an average of $7 billion annually.
A laptop containing the unencrypted personal records of Alere Home Monitoring customers was stolen from an employees car.
Missing information includes ultrasound images, names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of patients who visited two health facilities.
The breach compromised the personal information of about 27,000 patients at Blount Memorial Hospital in Maryville, Tenn.
The provincial government of British Columbia has fired four employees and suspended three others after allegations that health data was shared inappropriately.
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates have agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle potential HIPAA violations.
Police are investigating a data breach incident at the University of Miami Hospital, where two employees were fired for stealing patient data, and possibly selling the sensitive information.
The laptop of an employee of Indianapolis-based Cancer Care Group was stolen, exposing the information of patients and staff.
Stolen laptop at Apria Healthcare exposes patient data
The computer theft marks the second breach of patient data in a year at Stanford Hospital.
A USB drive with data on 14,300 patients of Oregon Health & Science University in Portland was stolen from the home of an employee on July 4 or 5.
August 01, 2012
The apps used on mobile devices connected to its network contained sensitive data, so a medical device manufacturer needed to ensure that access control and authorization policies were enforced.
An unencrypted laptop containing the personal data of roughly 10,000 medical patients was stolen from a hospital vendor employee's home.
A desktop computer storing personal health information was stolen from NYU Langone Medical Center.
