Siobhan Chapman reports: An NHS trust has been hit by enforcement action by the Information Commissioner’s Office following the theft of two laptops containing patient data. Brent Teaching Primary Care Trust was found to have breached data protection laws, after two laptops were stolen containing the personal information of 389 patients. The laptops were stored…
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Academic records inadvertently released
Tyler O’Neil reports: The presidents of Drake’s eight Greek fraternities were surprised to receive an e-mail in late January from the director of fraternity and sorority life with the grades of every fraternity man at Drake listed in an Excel spreadsheet. Drake’s four sorority presidents received similar e-mails with the complete listing of every sorority…
Ca: Changes to Alberta's health record system may cause loss of patient privacy, doctors fear
Jamie Komarnicki reports: Personal health details may become more vulnerable if proposed changes affecting the provincewide electronic health record system go ahead, according to the Alberta Medical Association. Patients’ relationships with their doc-tors may also be at risk if feel they can’t trust the privacy of the health information they share with their physician,…
Disabled Veteran Receives Other Veterans’ Personal Data By Mistake
Dallas Cook reports: Just a week after the Veterans Affairs Department agreed to pay $20 million to veterans for exposing them to possible identity theft in 2006 by losing sensitive personal information in a stolen laptop computer, a local veterans association mistakenly sent out personal information about disabled veterans in the mail. Gerry Sparks, a…
Abortion Center in Michigan Given Probation for Illegally Dumping Patient Records
Steven Ertelt reports: An abortion practitioner in Michigan and his chain of abortions businesses were given probation on Wednesday in a case involving the illegal dumping of patient records. Last year, members of a local pro-life group found biohazard waste and medical records at the Womancare abortion business. […] On Wednesday, in a hearing before…
CO: Warrant: Mother stole medical records to protect daughter
This story just gets weirder and weirder…. A hospital worker inside St. Anthony Central Hospital says Paul Simmons and his friends made her steal personal information about patients or said they would kill her daughter, according to arrest warrants released Wednesday. Read more on 9News.com