Hannah Clay Wareham reports: The debacle beginning in March 2009 with the loss of confidential patient records on a Red Line train continues in the new year with allegations of harassment against Massachusetts General Hospital staff. […] Soon after Jacob received the administrative assistant’s e-mail, Jacob says an anonymous caller alerted him to the appearance…
Category: Health Data
UK: Records stolen from hospital that held secret DNA database
Mark Tighe reports: Two computer servers containing the records of almost 1m patients were stolen from the Children’s University hospital in Temple Street in 2007 and have never been recovered. The data were far more than that lost on stolen bank laptops in recent years. The theft was investigated by the data protection commissioner (DPC)…
Customers alerted to BlueCross data breach
Customers of Chattanooga-based insurer BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee slowly are being notified by mail of a potential breach of their personal information. This week, BCBS will provide updated data to the public on exactly how many customers were exposed when 57 hard drives were pilfered in October from a storage closet at the insurer’s Eastgate…
Ex-UCLA researcher pleads guilty to record breach
Shaya Tayefe Mohajer of Associated Press reports: A former UCLA School of Medicine researcher pleaded guilty to reading confidential medical records of celebrities, high-profile patients and his co-workers in federal court on Friday. Los Angeles resident Huping Zhou, 38, entered a conditional guilty plea to four counts of violating federal medical privacy laws in a…
MS: Woman out of a job after sending tweet to Governor Barbour
Julie Straw of WDAM reports: A tweet to Governor Haley Barbour ended with a University Medical Center employee resigning from her job. She said she was simply using the social networking site Twitter to exercise her right to freedom of speech. UMC officials said it was a violation of privacy laws. Last Tuesday afternoon Governor…
UMC lacks way to log patients’ records
Marshall Allen updates us on a recent breach involving allegations that insider(s) accessed and sold patient data to local attorney(s): University Medical Center has no system to track patient records, leading to numerous instances in which hospital paperwork containing Social Security numbers, birth dates and other private information goes missing, a state investigation has found….