Category: Health Data

Eric Chabrow reports: Witnesses testifying Wednesday on a data breach bill called on senators to exempt industries from notifying individuals whose personal information is exposed if other laws require such alerts. Melissa Bianchi, a lawyer representing the American Hospital Association, told the Senate Commerce, Science and Technology Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Insurance Subcommittee, that…

Ault Chiropractic Center in Indiana has notified HHS that computer theft on September 15th affected the PHI of 2,000 patients. There is no notice on their web site as of the time of this posting so I don’t know precisely what types of information were on the stolen and whether there was any encryption or…

Benjamin Wright is an attorney who teaches e-discovery, data security and cyber investigations law at the SANS Institute. In commenting on the recent matter of Lucile Salter Packard Hospital being fined for not notifying patients within 5 days of confirming that PHI were on a stolen computer, Wright states: Yet I will say that it…

As a follow-up to a case reported on this blog previously: Dale Trever, 22, a data quality manager at Hull Primary Care Trust, has pleaded guilty to snooping through patients’ medical records over 400 times. Most of them were the records of family members, friends, and colleagues. Anh Nguyen reports in Computerworld (UK): At Hull…

Lister Hospital was the hospital involved in the recent East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust incident where a junior doctor left a flash drive with unencrypted patient information on a train.  More here.

Murray Brewster reports: Confidential medical and financial information belonging to an outspoken critic of Veterans Affairs, including part of a psychiatrist’s report, found its way into the briefing notes of a cabinet minister. Highly personal information about Sean Bruyea was contained in a 13-page briefing note prepared by bureaucrats in 2006 for then minister Greg…