protected health information

The Parade of Major Reported PHI Breaches Hits 400 - A Closer Look at Victim 400 and its Actions in Response to the Breach - Part 2

Michael Kline
March 21, 2012 05:38

This blog series has been following breaches of Protected Health Information (“PHI”) that have been reported on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) list (the “HHS List”) of breaches of unsecured PHI affecting 500 or more individuals (the...

Finding the Messages to Employers in $1.5M HIPAA Settlement

Privacy and Data Protection Practice Group
March 14, 2012 20:11

By Philip L. Gordon Yesterday’s $1.5M “Resolution Agreement” between Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee (“BCBST”) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), the agency responsible for enforcing HIPAA, is the fourth major settlement...

The Parade of Major Reported PHI Breaches Hits 400 - Theft is the Primary Type of Breach

Michael Kline
March 14, 2012 04:15

This blog series has been following breaches of Protected Health Information (“PHI”) that have been reported on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) list (the “HHS List”) of breaches of unsecured PHI affecting 500 or more individuals (the...

The Parade of PHI Security Breaches: UCLA Rejoins the March and Merits Mixed Reviews for the Quality of its Public Disclosures

Michael Kline
February 05, 2012 17:40

In a recent posting on this blog series, my partner William Maruca mentioned the multiple reported “snooping” intrusions from 2005 to 2009 by employees at UCLA Health System (“UCLA”) into medical records of celebrities “without a permissible reason.” Such...

Personal Information Data Breaches - Not if, but When?

January 03, 2012 21:29

By Elizabeth Litten The widely publicized pre-Christmas breach of confidential data held by Stratfor Global Intelligence Service (“Stratfor”), a company specializing in data security, reminded me that very little (if any) electronic information is truly secure. If Stratfor’s...