Heart health center posts click-through ad to announce e-records breach
Healthcare and Public Health // Texas, United States
The advertisement on the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal website stated that the Lubbock Cardiology Clinic’s electronic health record system was accessed illicitly for about a month and a half.
The message prompted readers to click on the ad for further information.
The link contained a short letter, dated April 1, claiming to be from Dr. Guy Wells, president of Lubbock Cardiology Clinic.
“This access viewed, copied, downloaded and exported medical records and patient demographics (names, addresses, phone numbers and social security numbers) without our approval,” it reads. “We are vigorously seeking answers and recovery of this information, and I am confident that we will be successful.”
When the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal called the clinic, a woman who answered said patients can get information about the breach from their doctors.
Dr. Wells seems to be legit. The woman on the phone “told A-J Media to contact Dr. Wells when he returns on Monday,” the Avalanche Journal reports.
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