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ck4829

(37,055 posts)
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 09:55 AM Aug 10

Our data is not safe in the healthcare system - Data breach of patient info reported at Miami-area hospital.

Patients who received care at Baptist Health South Florida may have had their personal data, including names, Social Security numbers and medical information, accessed in a breach that impacted one of the hospital system’s vendors.

Baptist, in a letter recently sent to patients, said an “unauthorized third party gained access to and obtained data that was maintained” by Oracle Health, an electronic health record vendor formerly known as Cerner.

Oracle Health’s investigation determined its systems “may have been compromised as early as January 22, 2025, affecting the information of many health care providers, including Baptist Health,” the hospital told the Miami Herald in a statement Tuesday.

That information may have included names, Social Security numbers and details found “within patient medical records, such as medical record numbers, doctors, diagnoses, medicines, test results, images, care and treatment,” according to the letter, which was obtained by the Herald.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article311590277.html

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Our data is not safe in the healthcare system - Data breach of patient info reported at Miami-area hospital. (Original Post) ck4829 Aug 10 OP
I just got a letter from Baptist Health South Florida yesterday Ritabert Aug 10 #1
It's crazy you have to go through this, all these high medical bills and they're not even paying for IT security! ck4829 Aug 10 #2
They claim it was a "vendor's" fault but who knows what that means. Ritabert Aug 10 #3

Ritabert

(1,560 posts)
1. I just got a letter from Baptist Health South Florida yesterday
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 10:42 AM
Aug 10

They claim they're paying for 2 years of Experian's monitoring plan. I have to contact them tomorrow. I already have my credit reports blocked.

ck4829

(37,055 posts)
2. It's crazy you have to go through this, all these high medical bills and they're not even paying for IT security!
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 10:48 AM
Aug 10
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