Posts Tagged ‘California’

External drive containing thousands of patient records stolen from a Kaiser Permanente’s employee’s vehicle

External drive containing thousands of patient records stolen from a Kaiser Permanente's employee's vehicle. Control of external media is a tricky balance of usability and security (including security budgets)

• 15,500 patients from Northern California potentially effected
• Data included patient name and medical record number
• Drive was not encrypted
• Device was personal property
• Employee was fired
• Patients effected were notified by mail

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Guilty plea on reading private medical records at UCLA (HIPAA Privacy)

Former employee of UCLA healthcare pleaded guilty to four counts of reading private medical records. Many were from celebrities and high-profile patients.

• Violation of HIPAA privacy
• One of the first convicted of violating privacy provisions of HIPAA
• Accessed records inappropriately hundreds of times
• Facing maximum penalty of four years in prison

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Physical hospital security

Great article about physical hospital security at St. Bernadine's in California

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CD with patient info goes missing

Data on 68,000 members may have been compromised at CalOptima. Patient data was on a set of unencrypted CDs that were lost in the mail. They plan to offer credit monitoring for those effected....It's not just the loss of patient information that gets healthcare organizations in the news, it can also be employee information.

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