Category: Health Data

Hannah Wolfson reports: A woman was charged Thursday with stealing 4,500 patients’ medical records from Trinity Medical Center, possibly with the intent of using them for identity theft. Chelsea Catherine Stewart, 26, was arrested Thursday morning by U.S. Postal inspectors, who said they found hundreds of pages with names, birth dates and Social Security numbers…

WFMY News reports the latest development in a breach mentioned previously on this blog. … a Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center employee, Linda Turner, stole hundreds, possibly thousands, of people’s medical records.They say she kept the files in the basement of a home she owns and other storage units. Prosecutors charged Turner with felony larceny…

An investigation has been launched after confidential hospital patient documents were discovered in a bin. The information — which contained names, ages and medical history of patients at The Royal Bolton Hospital— was found in a bin outside McDonald’s in Derby Street, Bolton, on Monday, by a diner at the restaurant. The document contained the…

Would you want your records exposed this way? Even if you’re not worried about identity theft or employment discrimination, would you want others knowing such sensitive information>? Martin Bagot reports: Police are investigating after confidential medical records were found by a member of the public in Coventry. He reported finding the highly sensitive documents dumped…

Richard Craver reports: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center said Wednesday that it has fired an employee who had boxes of medical records and documents in a home she owns. Wake Forest Baptist, in a statement, did not identify the employee. According to Forsyth County tax records, the home is owned by Linda-Carolyn Bowden Turner, who could not be…