HEALTHCARE
Data theft at Medical City, Carenow affects 11 million patients
Medical City Healthcare, Red Cross team up for summer blood drives across DFW
numbers or other sensitive informa- tion, according to the announcement. Instead, the list published only included the following information: • Patient name, city, state and ZIP code • Patient email, telephone number, date of birth and gender • Patient service date, location and next appointment date Current situation: HCA Healthcare is the parent company for hundreds of hospitals and physician clinics including all Medical City Healthcare locations, of which there are 16 across the Dallas-Fort Worth area. There is a Medical City location in Frisco. HCA Healthcare is also the parent organization for Carenow, which also has multiple clinics in the DFW area. HCA Healthcare has disabled user access to the storage location used in the data theft, according to the announcement. An investigation is underway, and no other “malicious activity” to HCA Healthcare networks and systems has been found, accord- ing to the announcement.
BY COLBY FARR
DONATION REQUIREMENTS There are requirements that people must meet to be eligible to donate blood.
Medical City Healthcare and the American Red Cross North Texas Region are partnering together to host blood drives throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area this summer. The blood drives, which are sup- ported by Medical City Healthcare’s Black Colleague Network, aim to offset seasonal blood shortages while providing benefits to sickle cell patients, according to a news release. The two organizations previously partnered together in 2022 with the same goal. What you need to know: Red Cross will host blood drives at the following times and locations: • Medical City Fort Worth: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Aug. 18 • Medical City Lewisville: 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Aug. 18 • Medical City North Hills: 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Aug. 23
BY ALEX REECE
The parent company to hundreds of hospitals and clinics, HCA Health- care Inc., announced July 10 approx- imately 11 million of its patients may have been the victim of a data leak. What’s happening?: Names, ZIP codes, phone numbers, email addresses and appointment dates were among the information stolen. The patient information seems to have been taken from an external stor- age location used for formatting email messages and appointment remind- ers, according to the announcement. An “unknown and unauthorized party” then published a list of 27 million rows of information to an online forum. As its original purpose was for emails, the list did not include any clinical information, such as treatments, diagnoses, credit card
Donors must be in good health and feeling well
Donors must be at least 16 years old in most states
Donors must weigh at least 110 pounds
Donors can’t have cold, flu or other illness types
Donors can’t have low iron
Donors can’t have recently traveled outside of the US
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