After returning from an appointment at a Hartford HealthCare outpatient facility in Manchester, Conn., Jennifer Wylie found the hospital had provided her with 10 pages of another patient's medical records along with her own paperwork, according to WFSB report.
Cybersecurity
Hospital IT executives are split in their confidence when it comes to medical device security, according to a joint report from KLAS Research and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives published Oct. 5.
Toyota Industries North America is notifying 19,000 current and former employees and health plan participants about a data security incident affecting their personal and protected health information, the company said Sept. 28.
A Kansas City, Mo.-based medical billing firm reported a HIPAA breach affecting patients at a pulmonary and critical care center in Lincoln, Neb., according to the Lincoln Journal Star.
Scripps Health in San Diego has sent a local woman other patients' medical records on three separate occasions, even though she has reported the issue, according to ABC 10 News.
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Hundreds of documents containing patients' protected health information and belonging to five Houston area hospitals were recently found on a sidewalk by a KHOU11 employee.
Lawrenceville, Ga.-based Gwinnett Medical Center is investigating a security incident involving the names, dates of birth and genders of 40 patients that were exposed on Twitter after being accessed by an unauthorized user, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to Becker's Hospital…
L.D. Gill, hospital security officer at Atlanta-based Emory University Hospital, discusses how hackers are using mobile and medical devices to break into hospital cybersecurity systems and the best way staff can help in the aftermath of an attack.
Ann Arbor-based Michigan Medicine began notifying roughly 3,700 patients on Sept. 28 about a mailing error that may have inadvertently exposed their names and contact information.
A mailing error at the Oklahoma Department of Human Services may have exposed about 813 of its clients' personal information, newsok reports.