A collection of 23 posts
72,000 Patients Found Out About Their Breach From the Evening News That's not a hypothetical. In 2023, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital discovered
A Nurse Called Me From Her Car — Here's What She Asked Last spring, a home health nurse called me from a parking lot.
A nurse in Tennessee glanced at her ex-husband's medical chart during a slow shift. No screenshot. No printout. Just a look. Within three
A nurse in Tennessee pulls up her ex-husband's medical records out of curiosity. She doesn't share them. She doesn't
In 2018, a small Texas health system called MD Anderson Cancer Center lost three unencrypted devices containing patient records. The result? A $4.3 million
A surgeon in Oklahoma texts a patient's lab results to the wrong phone number. Three weeks later, the patient's attorney files
A hospital employee in Louisiana looked up her ex-husband's medical records out of curiosity. A health plan in Massachusetts left the PHI of
A nurse in Texas logs into an EHR system, pulls up her ex-husband's new girlfriend's medical records, screenshots the results, and
A nurse in a small-town hospital pulls up her neighbor's medical chart to see if the rumors are true — her neighbor is pregnant.
In February 2023, Banner Health agreed to pay $1.25 million to the Office for Civil Rights after a hacking incident exposed the electronic protected
Last year, a woman in Ohio told me she'd spent three months trying to figure out how to report her dentist's
A woman in California walked into her pharmacy and discovered that an employee had accessed her prescription records — not to fill a prescription, but out
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