A non-encrypted laptop computer stolen from a Health Service Executive (HSE) office contains sensitive personal financial data on people who have approached community welfare officers seeking assistance. The laptop containing the data was one of 15 computers stolen from HSE offices in Roscommon town at the weekend. […] One of the two non-encrypted laptops contained…
Category: Health Data
NZ: Breach confirms TestSafe privacy fears
Jodi Yeats of New Zealand Doctor Online reports: A data breach in Auckland’s controversial regional lab tests repository has confirmed health sector fears about regional databases. A phone call from a patient in late May alerted Auckland regional DHBs to privacy breaches in Auckland’s controversial regional community laboratory results repository, TestSafe, affecting 150 patients. The…
NZ: Breach confirms TestSafe privacy fears
Jodi Yeats reports: A data breach in Auckland’s controversial regional lab tests repository has confirmed health sector fears about regional databases. A phone call from a patient in late May alerted Auckland regional DHBs to privacy breaches in Auckland’s controversial regional community laboratory results repository, TestSafe, affecting 150 patients. The patient was attending an outpatient…
Cedars-Sinai worker gets prison for stealing patient records
This is a follow-up on a story covered previously. A former Cedars-Sinai Medical Center employee was sentenced to four years, eight months in prison after pleading guilty today to stealing patient information to defraud insurance companies of $354,000. The hospital had sent letters in December to more than 1,000 patients, warning them that their personal…
La Verne teacher claims Kaiser Permanente nurse violated her privacy
Amanda Baumfeld of the San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports: When stories about hospital privacy breaches turn into lawsuits, there’s usually a celebrity name attached. Britney Spears, Farrah Fawcett and Nadya Suleman have all claimed medical staffs snooped through their confidential records. But celebrities aren’t the only ones alleging violation of their privacy. A second- grade…
UK: DoH blocks data breach database
Meanwhile, over in the UK: The government has blocked proposals for it to collect and publish data on all NHS security breaches, GP can reveal. In a letter to ministers, written last year and released under the Freedom of Information Act, DoH director of IT implementation Richard Jeavons argued that disciplining offences was the ‘responsibility…