Capstone Dental Center, PC (dba Arnerident Dental Associates) recently notified (pdf) the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that an email address for one doctor was typed incorrectly. As a result, attachments containing unencrypted dental information and the Social Security number of one patient were sent to the email address of a dairy farmer located in…
Category: Health Data
CDT Comments on FTC Health Data Breach Notification Rulemaking
From CDT.org: CDT, together with the Markle Foundation and others, filed comments with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding new requirements on how to notify patients when unsecured personal health record (PHR) data has been breached. In the comments, CDT called on FTC to work with the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure…
Stimulus Bill Includes Important Privacy Provisions That Affect Psychiatrists
Stephen Barlas has an article in the current issue of Psychiatric Times on how ARRA affects psychiatrists. It beings: Psychiatrists failed to get privacy protection for an expanded version of their psychotherapy notes in the stimulus bill Congress passed last February. But the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) did authorize a study on the…
Kelsey-Seybold Clinic notifies patients of data loss
Kelsey-Seybold Clinic has confirmed to this site that they recently notified patients of a data loss incident that has not been reported in the mainstream media. According to a few sources that we could not confirm, the breach involved unencrypted patient data. The only statement the clinic would make in response to a request for…
UK: How do firms know about our illnesses?
Michael Nock of Foley Road, Streetly, had a knee-replacement operation at Walsall’s Manor Hospital. He went home to recover. What happened next came as a surprise. “I suddenly got a brochure through the post from a company selling mobility scooters. At first I put it down to coincidence. […] NHS staff are forbidden to pass…
NHS Scotland loses patients’ medical history data
Computing.co.uk reports: The Scottish NHS has admitted to the loss of medical histories for 137 patients that were stored on a memory stick, in contravention of data protection rules. The admission comes just days after the Scottish parliament published a report recommending the devolved government should be more proactive ensuring compliance with security standards. Police…