Category: Health Data

Katia Lopez-Hodoyan reports: Facebook is used to stay connected, write to friends and even show pictures but now the website seems to be at the center of a North County hospital investigation. Dozens of Tri City Medical Center employees may have shared patient’s information in social networking sites without the consent of patients. Officials did…

Pamela Roth and Angela Hall report: Brad Smith was a little surprised to discover …. a few dozen blue and green plastic medical cards containing various pieces of personal information, such as a name, telephone number, address and date of birth. The cards were strewn all over the street and on the side of adjacent…

Following up on a breach previously covered here and here, the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office released this statement yesterday: A Greensboro urgent care center has paid $50,000 because its patients’ financial and medical information were illegally disposed of in a dumpster, Attorney General Roy Cooper announced Friday. “When you share your personal information with…

Chris Swingle and Gary McLendon repport: About half of the 2,500 patient bills Strong Memorial Hospital mailed on April 19 went to the wrong patients, and this week the hospital sent letters apologizing to affected people and telling them to be alert to any possible misuse of their information. Spokeswoman Teri D’Agostino said a machine…