According to The Harris Poll(R), four percent or an estimated nine million American adults believe that they or a family member have had confidential personal medical information either lost or stolen. When asked which medical records – computerized or paper – they believe may be lost or stolen most often, just under half (47%) think…
Category: Health Data
Louisville chiropractor gets probation for videotaping patients
Patrick Howington reports: Dr. Paul Hollern, who once ran a chiropractor-training empire from Louisville, was sentenced yesterday to 12 months of probation for videotaping patients without their knowledge. Advertisement Hollern, 45, must serve six months of that time on home incarceration, but he is allowed to leave home to work. […] The jury could not…
Ca: Ombudsman looking into breach at nursing home
Jeff Ducharme of the Telegraph-Journal reports on what may be another file-sharing compromise — this one in St. John’s, Canada: The province’s ombudsman and privacy commissioner, Bernard Richard, said he’s looking into the loss of personal information from the Loch Lomond Villa. On Monday, Loch Lomond Villa CEO Cindy Donovan confirmed that personal data from…
UK: Files found in abandoned hospital
Christopher Sleight and Hayley Rothwell of BBC in Scotland report: Confidential patient information has been left lying in an abandoned hospital in Lanarkshire, BBC Scotland can reveal. X-rays marked with patients’ names, photographs and other paperwork were found scattered at Law Hospital in Carluke, which closed in 2001. The discovery comes weeks after it emerged…
IL: New Trier hacker saw teacher salaries, medical records
Dan Rozek reports: Jonah Greenthal said he hacked into the computer system at New Trier High School to check his class rank, but the 18-year-old senior found much more than that. Greenthal managed to tap into confidential school data that included teacher salaries, medical records and grade histories for students who had graduated as long…
TN: Treatment Center Patient's Files Found In Trash
Medical records are supposed to be private. But one watchdog group said they found 50 pages of sensitive patient information out in the open in a trash bin outside a methadone clinic — the Middle Tennessee Treatment Center. Full story – NewsChannel5.com