Category: Health Data

Hundreds of students’ confidential records — including psychiatric exams and Social Security numbers — were dumped on the sidewalk in front of their former Manhattan high school yesterday. Infuriated parents and kids from the School for the Physical City rushed to the East 25th Street site after learning of the horrific privacy bungle, saying they…

The social services department at Bath and North East Somerset Council has been forced to apologise for a series of blunders which left a number of vulnerable people open to being targeted by thieves and conmen. The apology comes after the Somerset Guardian was handed sheets of confidential information about people under the care of…

Shore News Today in New Jersey reports: An Absecon woman was arrested Wednesday, Sept. 2 for allegedly accessing someone’s medical records on the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center computer network, according to Atlantic County Prosecutor Ted Housel. Mildred Zamot, 30, accessed the records May 14 while she was working at Atlantic Gastroenterology Associates in Egg Harbor…

Jeff Tucker reports: A Pueblo West man has filed a lawsuit against the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center on behalf of his daughter, who sought treatment at the university hospital in Denver and was sent to a New Mexico prison for her trouble. Kimberly K. Lusardi, 36, is serving an eight-year sentence in New…

More on the Trulife laptop theft from 2008 that was never reported until mid-2009: A computer containing personal information about patients who have visited Powys teaching Local Health Board’s (tLHB) orthotics department has been stolen. Remarkably this incident happened in February 2008 but the third party in charge of the laptop only informed Powys tLHB…