New Glasgow police are investigating the theft of a computer memory stick from a Pictou County Health Authority office. The authority says they’ve contacted about two thirds of the 150 clients who received child and adolescent mental health services since last August. The flash drive was stolen from an employee’s desk Tuesday. Full story –…
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Pa: Records Being Moved Out Of Old Clinic (update)
WJAC TV reports: An abandoned Cambria County clinic has been causing problems for both neighbors and the building’s owners, especially after the building was broken into and medical records were thrown in and around the old clinic. Once those medical records showed up on the road leading to the old Colver Clinic, people began to…
UCSF alerts patients about a security breach
From the UCSF Press Office: The University of California San Francisco is alerting a group of patients that it has discovered a security breach involving a computer that held personal patient information. There is no indication that any patient files were accessed. However, UCSF takes this situation very seriously and is therefore responding with the…
NY: Two certified nurses faces false records charges
Victoria E. Freile of the Democrat and Chronicle reports: New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that his office has filed charges against two certified nurse aides who worked in Rochester-area nursing homes. One aide allegedly used patients’ personal information to secure utility services for her home and the other aide allegedly falsified…
PA: Patients' records scattered outside abandoned clinic
Susan Evans reports in the Tribune-Democrat: Medical records at an abandoned and dilapidated clinic in Colver have been thrown around the building’s parking lot and on the side of the road, despite a county agency’s promises that patient information had been removed. Cambria Township police Officer Boyd Sherry confirmed that he responded to a call…
Bill would let pharmacies sell medical records
Elizabeth Fernandez of the San Francisco Chronicle reports: Pharmacies in California would be allowed to sell confidential patient prescription information to third-party marketing firms working for drug companies under a bill expected to be voted on Thursday by the state Senate. The legislation would allow pharmaceutical firms to send mailings directly to patients. Supporters of…