myNurse, a healthcare startup that provides chronic care management and remote patient monitoring services, said it would shut down at the end of the month after reporting a data breach that exposed patients. personal health information of its users.
The startup, which launched as Salusive Health, said in a data breach notice filed with the California attorney general’s office that it discovered a breach on March 7 in which an unauthorized person had accessed the company’s protected health data. The data breach notice warned that patients’ demographic, health and financial information was accessed, including names, phone numbers, dates of birth, but also medical history, diagnoses, treatments, test results laboratory, prescriptions and health insurance information.
myNurse said in the data breach notice that its decision to shut down its business “is unrelated to the data security incident,” but did not provide a reason for the unexpected shutdown. The company said it began notifying affected patients on April 29, the same date as its data breach notification, more than seven weeks after the breach was discovered.
myNurse co-founder and CEO Waleed Mohsen provided TechCrunch with a brief statement that the company was considering “how best to adjust our business model in a changing healthcare landscape,” but declined to comment. answer all of our questions about the data breach, including why it took the company seven weeks to notify affected patients or whether myNurse had performed a third-party security audit of its systems prior to the breach.
Mohsen also declined to say how many patients are affected in total. Under California law, where myNurse is headquartered, companies must notify the attorney general’s office if more than 500 people are affected.
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