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Chicago – Cook County Health & Hospitals System
Announcement made publicly Aug 23.
Still not obvious online announcement, but as of Aug 26th, they still have the very important announcement that the Administration building will remain closed until Aug 23.
So, we aren’t surprised that news on this website is not up-to-date.
Details:
Laptop
Password protected
NOT encrypted
Need we say more?
If you [...]
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Continue Reading2,207 individuals, who participated in a newborn screening program, are being notified their personal information may have been stolen.
Details:
Laptop – password protected Windows user name, NOT encrypted.
Stored in a locked, private room (an office?)
Data – Includes: patient and mother’s names, medical record numbers, date of birth, diagnosis, plus social security number for some.
The exact date [...]
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Continue ReadingAh the joy of our new health care rules.
When the government isn’t reducing reimbursement rates, threatening to take back money already paid to you (via a RAC audit) or hanging huge fine threats over your head if you don’t follow privacy rules (HIPAA)…they sneak in a nifty little (additional) paperwork pothole.
With the passage of the [...]
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Continue ReadingOn Friday (the second best day to report bad news), American Airlines announced that a hard drive had been stolen from it’s Fort Worth headquarters building.
On this hard drive was current and former employee:
Names
Addresses
Dates of birth
Social Security numbers
some bank information
Oh, and “No customer data was affected”…whew! I’m sure the employees are grateful.
Things we don’t know:
Was [...]
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Continue ReadingThe Veterans Administration had information on 4000 veterans stolen when a laptop that belonged to a contractor was stolen.
This laptop, with ePHI (electronic patient health information) on it, was not encrypted.
The VA noted that the contract with this contractor did not include a requirement to encrypt data.
Recall that in 2006 information on over 26 million [...]
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