Author: Dissent

Brian Meechan of BBC reports: More than 150 security breaches at NHS trusts across Wales have led to patient and staff details being put at risk. Among data losses over a three year period, patient details from an entire children’s ward in Wrexham was found on a piece of paper in a puddle. […] The…

Marcus Stickley of The Nelson Mail reports: “Clerical error” was the cause of a botch-up in which four patients had their confidential medical documents posted to another patient, says the Nelson Marlborough District Health Board. Nelson woman Elaine Robinson last month received a letter containing medical documents relating to her and her newborn daughter, along…

A Jacksonville man said he’s in a fax fix because for months he’s been receiving faxes from doctors containing patients’ personal information. Michael Wilson receives his faxes through his e-mail and every day he said when he logs to his account he gets at least one fax meant for Liberty Medical, a company that help…

Ryan Seals of news-record.com reports: Patients at a Greensboro doctor’s office have been notified that their personal information — including Social Security numbers and addresses — was stolen in May.

Yan Chai Hospital has lost a batch of backup floppy discs containing 3,000 medical record applicants’ names and identity card numbers. The discs serve as backup copies storing the processing log sheet on medical report applications dated January 16, 2005, to January 15, 2006. They went missing during the encryption process and the hospital management…

According to The Harris Poll(R), four percent or an estimated nine million American adults believe that they or a family member have had confidential personal medical information either lost or stolen. When asked which medical records – computerized or paper – they believe may be lost or stolen most often, just under half (47%) think…