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OK State Dept. of Health: Stolen laptop contained personal and medical information on 133,000

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Dissent

A press release from the Oklahoma State Department of Health, issued today: The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) is notifying nearly 133,000 individuals that their names and some personal information may have been contained on an agency laptop computer that was stolen from an OSDH employee’s car last week. A database related to the…

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NI: Security breach over cancer records

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Dissent

The Belfast Trust is reassuring cancer patients their medical records are safe, after an inquiry was launched by the Information Commissioner following a major security breach. It is claimed up to twenty thousand x-rays and patient files were abandoned at the old Belvoir Park hospital in 2008. The Belfast Trust said all patients’ records at…

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UK: Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence admits it doesn't know what happened to files containing sensitive personal data

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Dissent

In the second of two undertakings  announced by the Information Commissioner’s Office on April 11, the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE) was found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act after the possible loss of documents from complaint review files containing sensitive personal data. The ICO notes, however, that “due to weaknesses…

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UK: Medical histories of children and birth mothers lost in move – NHS Liverpool Community Health

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Dissent

In one of two undertakings announced by the Information Commissioner’s Office, NHS Liverpool Community Health indicated that it had breached the Data Protection Act (DPA) by losing papers relating to the medical history of both 31 preschool children and their birth mothers during a premises move in October 2010. The ICO’s investigation found that NHS…

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CO: Dentist leaves patient information in outside trashcan

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Dissent

Longmont – Medical records that contained patients’ private information have now been secured after 9NEWS warned a Longmont dentist that the non-shredded documents were sitting in a publically accessible trash can. The documents were found Sunday morning by a man looking for scrap metal in downtown Longmont. Stan Harvey called 9NEWS after finding the documents…

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CO: Dentist leaves patient information in outside trashcan

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Dissent

Longmont – Medical records that contained patients’ private information have now been secured after 9NEWS warned a Longmont dentist that the non-shredded documents were sitting in a publically accessible trash can. The documents were found Sunday morning by a man looking for scrap metal in downtown Longmont. Stan Harvey called 9NEWS after finding the documents…

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