Category: Health Data

Ryan Seals of news-record.com reports: Patients at a Greensboro doctor’s office have been notified that their personal information — including Social Security numbers and addresses — was stolen in May.

Yan Chai Hospital has lost a batch of backup floppy discs containing 3,000 medical record applicants’ names and identity card numbers. The discs serve as backup copies storing the processing log sheet on medical report applications dated January 16, 2005, to January 15, 2006. They went missing during the encryption process and the hospital management…

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…

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…

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…

Dave Hansen of AMNews reports: Medicare has started a yearlong pilot project in South Carolina testing online personal health records as a way to enable beneficiaries to get more involved in their care and better manage their conditions. Patients control their records and decide who has access to them — from doctors to family members….