Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust and Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust have taken remedial action after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found them in breach of the Data Protection Act. Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust (PCT) informed the ICO of the theft of two desktop computers containing sensitive personal data relating to…
Category: Health Data
Es: Barcelona hospital has opened a disciplinary case against the doctor patient details on the street
Barcelona hospital has opened a disciplinary case against the doctor who left patient details on the street. The papers contained the personal details of 173 transplant patients beside a container for recycling paper. It appears the papers were kept at the persons home, although they no longer worked at the hospital. T he person ivolved…
Indian outsourcing boss arrested for selling medical records
From the Mail Foreign Service: The head of an Indian outsourcing company has been arrested for selling confidential medical records of patients treated at one of Britain’s top private hospitals. Police arrested Vikas Dhairyashil Bansode on Tuesday after an undercover investigation revealed the records were being sold for as little as £4 each. Hundreds of…
Indian police arrest company boss accused of selling medical records of British patients
From the Mail Foreign Service: The head of an Indian outsourcing company has been arrested for selling confidential medical records of patients treated at one of Britain’s top private hospitals. Police arrested Vikas Dhairyashil Bansode on Tuesday after an undercover investigation revealed the records were being sold for as little as £4 each. Hundreds of…
MD: Possible identity theft reported at Mercy
Brent Jones reports: Baltimore police are investigating a security breach at Mercy Medical Center that left an undisclosed number of patient records open to possible identity theft, according to the Maryland attorney general’s office. The hospital’s vice president for corporate compliance sent a letter to the affected former patients on Monday, saying that a former…
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust to improve data security
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust has pledged to improve the security of patients’ personal information after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found it in breach of the Data Protection Act. The ICO was provided with a report from the Director of ICT regarding the theft of a laptop computer from the Audiology Department. The…