Tighter rules for faxing medical documents are needed after a privacy breach last year, Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner says. Information and privacy commissioner Gary Dickson said Monday that after a Saskatoon medical clinic changed its fax number, another business in town got its old number — and received 60 faxes containing private health information. Read more…
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(Update) FL: Woman sentenced for stealing identity to get bigger breast implants
Jon Burstein of the Sun-Sentinel brings us up-to-date on a case of medical identity theft covered previously on this site. A Tamarac woman who broke the law to get bigger breast implants was sentenced Monday morning to two and a half years in federal prison. Shatarka Nuby, 29, pleaded guilty in August to aggravated identity theft and a…
Confidential patient details posted online by NHS East Sussex Downs and Weald
Confidential patient information has been inadvertently posted on a website in an NHS blunder. Patients’ names, dates of birth, NHS numbers and treatment and procedures were inadvertently included in an electronic spreadsheet file which formed part of a response to a Freedom of Information request sent out in May last year. The information was later…
UK: Action taken after MPs personal details compromised
The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has agreed to take action after MPs personal details were accidentally placed at risk on the MPs expenses database, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The expenses claims were accessible for a period of 21 hours, following IT maintenance work in July 2010 which inadvertently allowed those persons…
Stolen storage device contained credit card info for Dartmouth freshmen or parents
Dartmouth College has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that a storage device stolen from a secure room on or about Nov. 8 contained credit card information on 147 freshmen or their parents. According to the letter sent Nov. 22, data on the stolen device contained some combination of student and/or parent names, phone…
AU: Leak of draft e-health document raises privacy concerns
Karen Dearne reports: Patients will have limited control of their medical information, as a leaked document shows consumer access will be confined to a portal. While Health Minister Nicola Roxon said consumers would “truly control” their personal electronic health records at her e-health forum last week, attendees did not see a draft concept of operations,…