Shields Health Care Group, Inc. (“Shields”), which provides management and imaging services on behalf of health care facilities, announced in June 2022 that on March 28, 2022, it was alerted to suspicious activity that may have involved data compromise. The investigation determined that an unknown actor gained access to certain Shields systems from March 7, 2022 to March 21, 2022. The investigation also revealed that certain data was acquired by the unknown actor within that time frame. Although Shields had identified and investigated a security alert on or around March 18, 2022, data theft was not confirmed at that time.
Shields stated, “we have no evidence to indicate that any information from this incident was used to commit identity theft or fraud. However, the type of information that was or may have been impacted could include one or more of the following: Full name, Social Security number, date of birth, home address, provider information, diagnosis, billing information, insurance number and information, medical record number, patient ID, and other medical or treatment information. Shields review of the impacted data is ongoing.”
Shields listed the following “Facility Partners”:
| Baystate Health Urgent Care, LLC |
| Baystate MRI & Imaging Center, LLC |
| Brighton Imaging Center, LLC |
| Cape Cod CT Services, LLC |
| Cape Cod Imaging Services, LLC (a business associate to Falmouth Hospital Association, Inc) |
| Cape Cod PET/CT Services, LLC |
| Cape Cod Radiation Therapy Service, LLC |
| Central Maine Medical Center |
| Emerson Hospital |
| Fall River/New Bedford Regional MRI Limited Partnership |
| Falmouth Hospital Association, Inc. |
| Franklin MRI Center, LLC |
| Lahey Clinic MRI Services, LLC |
| Massachusetts Bay MRI Limited Partnership |
| Mercy Imaging, Inc. |
| MRI/CT of Providence, LLC |
| Newton-Wellesley MRI Limited Partnership |
| NW Imaging Management Company, LLC (a business associate to Newton Wellesley Orthopedic Associates, Inc.) |
| Newton-Wellesley Imaging, PC |
| Newton Wellesley Orthopedic Associates, Inc. |
| Northern MASS MRI Services, Inc. |
| PET-CT Services by Tufts Medical Center and Shields, LLC |
| Shields and Sports Medicine Atlantic Imaging Management Co, LLC (a business associate SportsMedicine Atlantic Orthopaedics P.A.) |
| Shields CT of Brockton, LLC |
| Shields Imaging at Anna Jaques Hospital, LLC |
| Shields Healthcare of Cambridge, Inc. |
| Shields Imaging at University Hospital, LLC |
| Shields Imaging at York Hospital, LLC |
| Shields Imaging Management at Emerson Hospital, LLC (a business associate to Emerson Hospital) |
| Shields Imaging of Eastern Mass, LLC |
| Shields Imaging of Lowell General Hospital, LLC |
| Shields Imaging of Portsmouth, LLC |
| Shields Imaging with Central Maine Health, LLC (a business associate to Central Maine Medical Center) |
| Shields Management Company, Inc. |
| Shields MRI & Imaging Center of Cape Cod, LLC |
| Shields MRI of Framingham, LLC |
| Shields PET/CT at CMMC, LLC |
| Shields PET_CT at Berkshire Medical Center, LLC |
| Shields PET-CT at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, LLC |
| Shields PET-CT at Emerson Hospital, LLC |
| Shields Radiology Associates, PC |
| Shields Signature Imaging, LLC |
| Shields Sturdy PET-CT, LLC |
| Shields-Tufts Medical Center Imaging Management, LLC (a business associate to Tufts Medical Center, Inc.) |
| South Shore Regional MRI Limited Partnership |
| Southeastern Massachusetts Regional MRI Limited Partnership |
| SportsMedicine Atlantic Orthopaedics P.A. |
| Tufts Medical Center, Inc. |
| UMass Memorial HealthAlliance MRI Center, LLC |
| UMass Memorial MRI – Marlborough, LLC |
| UMass Memorial MRI & Imaging Center, LLC |
| Winchester Hospital / Shields MRI, LLC |
| Radiation Therapy of Southeastern Massachusetts, LLC |
| Radiation Therapy of Winchester, LLC |
| South Suburban Oncology Center Limited Partnership |
| Shields Imaging of North Shore, LLC |
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