Hack Notice

Hack Notice: Pointe Medical Services, Inc.

Pointe Medical Services, Inc.

Description
The covered entity (CE), Pointe Medical Services, Inc., discovered on february 11, 2016, that a former nurse practitioner was soliciting patients to her new praxis from information she had downloaded from the CE between October 23, 2015 and until she was terminated on December 15, 2015. info on the reports included: patients' names, dates of birth, phone numbers, reasons for appointments, appointment status (i.e. no show, cancelled, etc.), service sites, diagnoses, conditions, and health insurance information including insurance providers and plan types. The hack affected 2,055 patients. The ce provided hack notification to HHS, to affected individuals, on its website and to various media outlets across ga and Florida. in response to the hack, the ce retrained its workforce, disabled the ability to download information to removable electronic storage devices, and increased the frequency of its electronic health record action audits. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above. Location of hacked information: desktop Computer, Other Portable Electronic Device concern associate present: no

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HackNotice is a service that notices trends and patterns in publically available data so as to identify possible data breaches, leaks, hacks, and other data incidents on behalf of our clients. HackNotice monitors data streams related to breaches, leaks, and hacks and Pointe Medical Services, Inc. was reported by one of those streams. HackNotice may also have the breach date, hack date, the hacker responsible, the hacked industry, the hacked location, and any other parts of the hack, breach, or leak that HackNotice can report on for the consumers of our product.

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