Tyler Olsen reports: Fraser Health is promising an investigation and review of privacy policies at Chilliwack General Hospital (CGH) after internal records bearing the names of patients ended up on a Chilliwack road. In late September, a resident of Tamihi Way found three pieces of paper from CGH on a street in the Garrison Crossing…
Category: Health Data
Breach at Genentech vendor puts patients at risk of identity theft
Like other companies, Genentech has a patient support program to assist patients who cannot afford needed medications. Unhappily, the patient support program data, maintained by an unnamed vendor, was breached. Genentech reported the breach to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on September 29, noting that they had been informed of the breach on August…
NH: Thousands of medical records stolen in car break
Brad Petrishen reports: Adult & Pediatric Dermatology, a firm that offers surgical and cosmetic skin care from offices in Marlborough, Westford, Concord and Wolfeboro, N.H., lost more than 2,000 patient records last month when a computer flash drive was stolen from an employee’s car. “On Sept. 14, a computer bag containing protected health information for…
Malpractice lawyer loses hard drive with patient records
Tricia Bishop reports: A Baltimore law firm lost a portable hard drive containing information about its cases, including medical records for 161 stent patients suing cardiologist Mark G. Midei for alleged malpractice at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson. The drive was lost Aug. 4 by an employee of the firm Baxter, Baker, Sidle, Conn & Jones who was…
Another guilty plea in ID theft ring that used data stolen from Electronic Data Systems
More on a case mentioned previously: Melinda Clayton of Montgomery, Ala., pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to defraud the United States by filing false claims, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Clayton admitted that between January and April 2011, she conspired with others to…
Medical records found dumped behind building were stolen
Not all medical records found dumped are dumped by the entity or a contractor. Here’s a case in Indiana where first impressions may be misleading and the dumped documents had reportedly been stolen.