This case just gets more and more intriguing, and the medical center has disclosed a lot of information that I typically don’t see is initial press releases. Devetta Blount reports: Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center employees and police say they are still on the case of stolen medical records. Employees spent Saturday reviewing more records that…
Category: Health Data
Ca: Pharmacy papers litter Riverview roadside
CBC News in Canada reports: CBC News discovered a major privacy breach at a pharmacy in Riverview, New Brunswick Friday. Scores of patient prescriptions, medication receipts and empty bottles were found littering the street near a Jean Coutu pharmacy on Coverdale Road. The documents include names, addresses and phone numbers and, ironically, a document outlining…
Three more reports to HHS revealed
The HHS breach tool has added three new incidents: Indiana Regional Medical Center in Pennsylvania reported that 1388 patients were notified of a September 28, 2010 incident involving the theft of paper records. The incident had been reported in the media earlier this month. The Indiana Gazette reported: Indiana Regional Medical Center has put more…
AL: 4,500 patient records stolen from Trinity Medical Center
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…
(update) Baptist Hospital Employee Charged After Medical Files Found
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…
UK: Royal Bolton Hospital patients’ details dumped in a McDonald's bin
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…