Suzanne Hoholik reports: OhioHealth officials announced yesterday that they will provide one year of credit protection to anyone who was a patient at Grant Medical Center from Jan. 1, 2008, through Nov. 5, 2010. Mark Hopkins, a spokesman for OhioHealth, which owns Grant, said an employee stole computers from an inventory storage facility that contained…
Category: Health Data
Ca: Privacy commissioner at 'impasse' with SGI
Saskatchewan’s information and privacy commissioner says Saskatchewan Government Insurance is collecting vast amounts of personal health information and needs to do a better job of protecting people’s privacy. That SGI is “over-collecting” is one of Gary Dickson’s conclusions after dealing with three privacy complaints about the Crown corporation. The complaints concerned people who made claims…
UK: Scandal of computer snooping by public servants includes medical information
Jack Blanchard reports the results of a freedom of information request on police in Yorkshire, UK. Revelations concerning non-medical incidents are posted to PogoWasRight, but here are the medically related incidents: The cases include… a doctor in Doncaster caught looking at a colleague’s medical records. At one hospital, in Rotherham, a cleaner was caught only…
Why Are Health Data Leaking Online? Bad Software, Study Says
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries reports: Hard-to-use software is behind the leakage of sensitive health data online, according to a study by Dartmouth researchers published in December. Health documents with sensitive patient information can be found in “peer-to-peer” networks, which people typically use to share music files and the like. The programs used to navigate these networks often…
KCI notifies some patients that employee misused their payment cards
On December 21, KCI (Kinetic Concepts, Inc.) Health Care Compliance notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security breach involving fraud. An employee in their Texas call center with authorized access to a database containing customers’ payment card data had reportedly misused the information of “several” customers to make purchases in the San Antonio area….
KCI notifies some patients that employee misused their payment cards
On December 21, KCI (Kinetic Concepts, Inc.) Health Care Compliance notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security breach involving fraud. An employee in their Texas call center with authorized access to a database containing customers’ payment card data had reportedly misused the information of “several” customers to make purchases in the San…