A Davenport, Iowa, company has alerted nearly 1,200 former hospital patients about a website data security lapse that exposed their names and birth dates to identity theft. FULL STORY »
Sacramento, Calif.-based Retinal Consultants Medical Group, which oversees eye-care and surgery facilities throughout Northern California, said some personal patient information may have been jeopardized as a result of the recent disappearance of a laptop computer. FULL STORY »
The Oregon Health & Science University is notifying more than 3,000 of its patients of a breach of their personally identifiable information after their data were placed by OHSU resident physicians on a pair of Google's cloud-based information-sharing services. FULL STORY »
About 18,700 students at the University of Virginia have been notified by a campus health official that Social Security numbers were printed along with their names and addresses on a recently mailed brochure touting a commercially offered student health insurance plan. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
The phrase "health insurance" may conjure up images of medical bills for some people, but for hackers it leads only to visions of dollar signs. FULL STORY »
Technology industry association leaders who testified Thursday before a House subcommittee hearing on whether legislation is needed for data breach reporting called for Congress to pre-empt state laws on data breaches. But at least one witness opposed such preemption. FULL STORY »
Unauthorized peeking at patient medical records remains an unsolved problem among healthcare providers, and privacy experts contend it's just in our nature to snoop. FULL STORY »
Somehow, somewhere, sometime in May, a computer chip containing medical records for more than 2,000 of a Lincoln, Neb., doctor's patients went missing—likely having slipped from the thumb drive he wore on a lanyard around his neck. FULL STORY »
By Quad-City Times (Davenport, Iowa) | June 27, 2013
Iowa Department of Human Services officials issued an alert Wednesday to former patients at the Mental Health Institute in Independence and hundreds of state employees there and at other state facilities concerning a possible breach of their confidential information. FULL STORY »
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