Rob Shaw reports: The Vancouver Island Health Authority has admitted it accidentally mailed the confidential health records of 13 clients to the wrong address, and didn’t know the files were missing until people started to complain. The records, which contained mental and physical evaluations of clients, were supposed to go into the inter-office mail system…
Category: Health Data
Nursing home patient information found in residents' yards
Amber Parcher reports: Montgomery County’s Department of Health and Human Services is looking into how numerous Wheaton nursing home papers containing sensitive patient information have made their way into nearby neighbors’ yards over the past few months. Last month, the county sent a nursing home inspector to investigate complaints from residents in the Wheaton Regional…
Nursing home patient information found in residents’ yards
Amber Parcher reports: Montgomery County’s Department of Health and Human Services is looking into how numerous Wheaton nursing home papers containing sensitive patient information have made their way into nearby neighbors’ yards over the past few months. Last month, the county sent a nursing home inspector to investigate complaints from residents in the Wheaton Regional…
Woman charged with using Tulsa hospital information in fraud plot
David Harper reports: A Sand Springs woman has been indicted on allegations that she used personal identifying information she garnered from her then-employer’s computer system as part of a fraudulent credit card and stolen mail scheme. Betty R. Warden, 45, exceeded her authorized computer-access authority at St. Francis Hospital to obtain things such as Social…
Hospital Says Patient Info Missing
Providence Hospital (Michigan), like all medical facilities, is required by federal law to safeguard patients’ private information. But the hospital has sent letters alerting patients that a hard drive used for backing up data has been “lost or stolen from a locked office suite.” The hospital explained that the data included patient names, medical record…
TN: Medical Records, Waste Dumped In Mansion
Jeremy Finley reports: State health officials and emergency management officials are trying to determine who dumped piles of medical records and waste in an abandoned Springfield mansion. […] There are rooms filled with medical records, boxes and boxes of the most private of information, all laying alongside the medical waste, discarded like trash. It’s also…