From This is North Devon: Sensitive personal data on a number of vulnerable families who use a specialist children’s centre in North Devon has been stolen. The confidential information on 45 families was on a USB computer data stick. It was lost when a member of staff at the Victoria House Children’s Centre in Barnstaple,…
Category: Health Data
MA: Hospital investigating how patient papers got lost
John Zaremba reports: St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center is scrambling to figure out how files containing patient information wound up on the ground outside a Charlestown office complex, miles from the hospital’s Brighton campus. An employee of Roadrunner Moving and Storage found the paperwork Friday outside the company’s Terminal Drive offices, near the landmark Schrafft center,…
Ca: Medical records breach was an employee error
Here’s a follow-up to a breach previously mentioned on this blog. Tyler Olsen reports: A Fraser Health spokesperson says an investigation into the discovery of private medical records on a local street concluded that Chilliwack General Hospital’s privacy policies are adequate and that the breach was caused by a single employee. In late September, a…
Newly revealed incidents from HHS's breach tool
HHS recently updated its breach notification tool and added seven incidents that have not been previously reported on this blog. In the first incident, Robert S. Smith, M.D., Inc. of Georgia notified HHS that a laptop theft on October 17, 2011 affected 17,000 patients. In researching this incident, I found a breach notification: HIPAA Breach…
UK: Cumbrian Hospitals Trust opens investigation after patients' details 'left on train'
Pamela McGowan reports: A probe has been launched after patients at north Cumbria’s hospitals were told some of their information had been lost on a train. A number of patients this week received letters informing them that personal details have gone missing. It is not known how many people are affected or the exact nature…
NC: Laptop of health care provider stolen
Richard Craver reports that an office burglary snagged a laptop with unencrypted patient data: A laptop computer stolen from a local behavioral-health provider on Dec. 13 contained medical data for 2,070 individuals in Davie, Forsyth and Stokes counties, the provider said Friday. Triumph LLC, which is based in Raleigh, notified clients and family members of…