Officials are investigating a South Florida hospital after personal patient information was accessed. Personal information from 1,800 patients were inappropriately accessed by employees at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Those patients whose personal information was accessed have been notified and offered free credit card fraud protection. JMH said they took quick action to address the issue and…
Category: Health Data
Novo Nordisk pays $1.725 million to resolve claims that sales representatives paid pharmacists for access to confidential patient information and to recommend their medications
It’s been an expensive week for Novo Nordisk. How expensive, you ask? How about $26.7 million to settle two government investigations? The following is a press release on the New York investigation about marketing and patient privacy: Novo Nordisk, Inc. has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the United States in which it has…
Another grain of sand in the data breach dunes
It seems that reports of stolen or lost patient records are everywhere these days. Here’s a small item from the public records page of the Lancaster Eagle Gazette in Pennsylvania on June 9: LANCASTER — Someone stole items from a 1998 Saturn SCI belong to a home health aide parked in the 1200 block of…
SC: Laptops Stolen From Elementary School; Thumb Drive May Contain Sensitive Information
From WSPA in South Carolina: Confidential information may have been stolen from students at an Upstate school. Investigators say someone swiped two laptop computers over Memorial Day weekend. A thumb drive on one of those computers may have contained personal information about students. The thefts happened at Ravenel Elementary School in Seneca in the Oconee…
UK: ICO issues monetary penalty of £120,000 to Surrey Council over misdirected emails
Three strikes and you’re out, it seems. The Information Commissioner’s Office has just issued a monetary fine to Surrey Council after repeated instances of misdirected e-mails containing personal information. From the press release: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) today served Surrey County Council with a monetary penalty of £120,000 for a serious breach of the Data Protection Act…
VA Caribbean Healthcare System to Provide Free Credit Monitoring to Veterans
This was posted on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs web site and dated May 20, 2011: San Juan, PR – The VA Caribbean Healthcare System is notifying and offering one year of free credit monitoring to 1,691 Veterans and staff whose personal information was left unsecured in an unrestricted area of the San Juan…