Category: Health Data

An Invercargill doctor who was reprimanded by the Privacy Commissioner for telling a nursing home one of its employees was a drug addict has been cleared of any wrongdoing in a judicial review. The High Court at Wellington found commissioner Marie Shroff wrongly ruled against general practitioner Robert Henderson over the 2003 disclosure. Dr Henderson…

It’s bad enough when a patient’s identity is stolen for purposes of obtaining medical care. But what about when someone steals a doctor’s identity to practice surgery? Mitya Underwood reports from Dubai: The plastic surgeon whose identity was stolen by a disgraced doctor has likened the experience to watching “a very bad movie”. Dr Steven…

A healthcare sector breach out of South Africa. Andrew Stone reports: Health authorities were scrambling yesterday to find out how thousands of confidential patient records ended up being freely available on the Internet. A team of 20 investigators from both the Eastern Cape and Western Cape Health departments have been tasked to find out how…

Brian Maffly reports: A Colorado insurance company contends it is not obligated to cover astronomical costs incurred by the University of Utah in 2008 after car burglars stole medical billings records filed with sensitive personal information on 1.7 million patients. U. officials want Perpetual Storage to reimburse the university more than $3.3 million. That’s how…