By Erin McCann
Healthcare IT News
Originally published April 7, 2014
Some 5,100 patients treated at Kaiser Permanente were sent HIPAA breach notification letters Friday after a KP research computer was found to have been infected with malicious software. Officials say the computer was infected with the malware for more than two and a half years before being discovered Feb. 12.
The computer was used by the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research to store research data. The breach, officials note, involved patients participating in specific research studies and may have compromised their names, birth dates, medical record numbers, lab results associated with research, addresses and additional medical research data.
The entire story is here.
