http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/site-flaw-puts-patient-data-google
By Erin McCann
Associate Editor
Healthcare IT News
August 9, 2013
The protected health information of some 32,000 patients across 48 states
has been compromised after a health IT vendor's firewall was down for more
than a month, allowing, in some cases, for patient data to be indexed by
Google, officials announced Thursday.
Hospitalist and intensivist company Cogent Healthcare, based in Nashville,
Tenn., contracted with Las Vegas-based medical transcription and software
vendor M2ComSys to transcribe care notes dictated by physicians. M2 stored
protected health information on what was supposed to be a secure Internet
site. The site, in reality, had its firewall down. The access to these
notes through the site began May 5, 2013, and ended following Cogent
Healthcare’s discovery of the lapse on June 24, 2013.
Patient data compromised included patients names, physician names, dates
of birth, diagnosis description, treatment data, medical history and
medical records numbers.
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