Health and Human Services

The recent MedPage Today survey results as to “third party errors” mirrors to some extent the proportion of business associate involvement reported for incidents that involved higher numbers of individuals on the HHS list of large PHI breaches as of December 2, 2011.
Continue Reading The Silent Brigade in the Parade of Major Reported PHI Breaches of Security and Privacy: Business Associates – An Update

Spectators of the Protected Health Information Breach Parade (and of the “silent brigade” of Business Associate breaches) will be awed by the sight of the recent, somewhat bizarre, Business Associate breach involving Stanford Hospital’s emergency room data.
Continue Reading Stanford Hospital Emergency Room Data Breach: the Snoopy® Float Materializes in the Parade of PHI Breaches

Ohio Health Plans, the public health care program overseen by the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services, reported that a PHI security breach had occurred on June 3, 2011 affecting 78,042 individuals, which had resulted from the theft of a laptop involving a business associate, Area Agency on Aging, Ohio District 5.
Continue Reading Ohio District 5 Area Agency on Aging, Inc.: a Business Associate Marcher in the Parade of Major PHI Security and Privacy Breaches

One area that has received relatively little attention from postings of the HHS list of large breaches of unsecured PHI is the extent to which such PHI breaches are reported as attributable to events involving business associates of covered entities.
Continue Reading The Silent Brigade in the Parade of Major Reported PHI Breaches of Security and Privacy: Business Associates

It appears that Eisenhower Medical Center is grappling with a PHI security breach affecting a reported 514,330 individuals that is the third largest posted in 2011 on the HHS list of large PHI security breaches.
Continue Reading Another Prominent Marcher Joins the Parade of Reported PHI Security Breaches: Eisenhower Medical Center

It appears Health Net is grappling with a breach that could involve as many as 1,900,000 persons, which would give it the distinction of having the largest and potentially loudest marching band in the Security Breach Parade.
Continue Reading The NEW Largest Marcher in the Parade of Reported PHI Security Breaches: Health Net, Inc.

On February 25, 2011, Robin Erb, Medical Writer at the Detroit Free Press, wrote an article entitled, “Lost Device Compromises Medical Information of 2,777 Patients” relative to another security lapse in less than a year within Henry Ford Health System.
Continue Reading The Henry Ford Health System Makes Another Appearance in the Parade of PHI Security Breaches

The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation’s North Bronx Healthcare Network has recently become perhaps the largest marcher in the parade of PHI security breaches with a reported 1,700,000 persons affected.
Continue Reading The Largest Marcher in the Parade of Reported PHI Security Breaches: NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation’s North Bronx Healthcare Network