Officials from the Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic in North Carolina notified over 17,000 patients of a potential data breach as a result of a third-party vendor’s illicit activities. The clinic hired the vendor to transfer x-ray films into electronic format but the vendor sold the films to a recycling company in Ohio that harvested the films for its silver. Source: … [Read more...] about Data breach on 17k patients due to illicit vendor activities
University of Rochester Medical Center officials this week sent letters to hundreds of former patients, alerting them that the center lost protected information. A resident physician misplaced a computer flash drive that contained protected health information of 537 former orthopaedic patients, according to a news release from URMC. The USB flash drive was used to transport … [Read more...] about Flash drive with patient information reported missing . . .