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Monday, September 10, 2012

Cancer Care Group Data Breach Exposes Nearly 55,000 Patients

By Kyle Murphy
EHR Intelligence
Originally published August 28, 2012

In a press release today, Cancer Care Group (Indianapolis, IN) announced that a laptop computer containing its computer server backup media was stolen from an employee’s locked care on July 19, 2012. The breach has potentially exposed the protected health information (PHI) or personally identifiable information (PII) of close to 55,000 individuals, including the organization’s own employees. The latest incident comes less than a month after Apria Healthcare reported a similar incident in Arizona where an employee’s car was broken into and a laptop containing information for 11,000 patients stolen.

The entire story is here.