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AU: NSW hospital patients not told their medical records were found in public areas

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Dissent

Nick Dole reports on the lack of transparency and notification following breaches of health data in NSW:

NSW hospital patients have had their confidential details compromised on multiple occasions, including medical records being found in a public carpark.

Many of the most serious privacy breaches have been reported in the Central Coast Local Health District, which runs Gosford and Wyong hospitals.

In 2015, a patient’s emergency assessment paperwork was discovered on the ground near Gosford Hospital.

However, the patient concerned was never informed because the Health District said there was not a “serious risk of harm”.

The same year, a confidential list of patients containing sensitive information including the reasons for attending hospital was discovered on a walkway near Gosford Hospital.

Once again, the patients were never informed because the information was not deemed to put them at “serious risk of harm”.

Read more on ABC (AU).

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