Catholic Health Impacted by CaptureRx Data Breach, Patients’ PHI Exposed
Health IT Security
Lisa Gentes-Hunt
Catholic Health announced that the recent CaptureRx data breach is impacting some of its patients’ protected health information (PHI.)
A total of 17,002 patients are being impacted by the data breach, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights.
In a press release, Catholic Health announced that patients from Mount St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston, New York and Sisters of Charity Hospital in Buffalo, New York, were part of the third-party pharmaceutical software vendor’s data breach which exposed patients’ PHI. CaptureRx notified the New York healthcare system on June 3, 2021, it stated.
The two New York-based hospitals join a variety of healthcare providers from across the country that were impacted by the CaptureRx data breach. The CaptureRx ransomware breach impacted...