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Author: Dissent

UK: Police probe hospital patient privacy breach

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Dissent

Gareth Rose reports: An investigation is under way into a breach of patient confidentiality at one of Scotland’s biggest hospitals after a cleaner looked up a young mother’s medical records on a computer and used them to pester her online. The worker noticed the woman while she was being treated at the hospital’s accident and…

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Ie: Health workers warned over protecting patients' data

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Dissent

Ronan McGreevy reports: Health professions have been warned that ignorance is no excuse for the law in relation to the handling of patients’ records. More than 10,000 copies of a new handbook, which explains the law governing data protection and includes a self-assessment tool, will be distributed to people involved in keeping patients’ records. What…

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Personal info from more than 500 patients on Web

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Dissent

Associated Press reports that a patient in Alaska conducting a Google search discovered that patient records were exposed on the web and notified the police. Dr. Paul Beane, a chiropractor at the Sitka Wellness Center, told the [Daily Sitka] Sentinel an “electronic medical record software vendor” he used for about 9 months in 2008 had…

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Two potential class action lawsuits filed against Sutter Health (updated)

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Dissent

It was only a matter of time, right? Darrell Smith reports: Sutter Health is being sued for negligence and other allegations in the mid-October theft of a computer from Sutter Medical Foundation headquarters that held information on more than 4 million of its patients. The class-action suit, filed Monday on behalf of plaintiff Karen Pardieck…

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NJ: Four charged with stealing identities; two were DMV employees

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Dissent

Two state motor vehicle clerks and two businessmen from Burlington County have been charged with stealing identities from government records and selling them for as little as $200. Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph L. Bocchini, Jr. announced the arrests yesterday, saying the busts were the result of seven-month investigation at two New Jersey Motor Vehicles Commission…

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University of Kentucky HealthCare notifying almost 900 patients that lost phone may have contained information on them

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Dissent

The University of Kentucky HealthCare has posted a public notice on its web site today: The University of Kentucky is notifying 878 people regarding a breach of protected health information. On September 25, 2011, a phone was lost. The employee had access to electronic mail that may have included information about health conditions with medical…

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