Category: Health Data

Health bosses have ordered a data amnesty after an employee lost personal information of 137 patients. NHS Lothian launched the campaign to ensure all 28,000 staff understand the rules on storing sensitive data – and own up if they lost files themselves. More – The Press Association

Sandra Kirk of FOX16 reports that paper files with personal information on 16 families, including Social Security numbers and medical information was stolen from the backseat of an Arkansas Department of Human Services employee’s unlocked car on May 5. The employee was permitted to take files off site under DHS’s rules, but had not safeguarded…

Private records containing medical histories of 137 patients have been lost by a health service worker, the NHS has said. Copies of letters sent to Edinburgh GPs by NHS Lothian over two years were stored on a computer memory stick in breach of data protection rules. Full story – Deeside Piper

This is a different Baptist hospital than the story reported just previous to this one. Toby Manthey reports in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: Baptist Health has sent letters warning about 1, 800 patients that the hospital system’s records may have been breached, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has learned. The notification came after the arrest of a Baptist…

Jeffrey Krasner reports in the Boston Globe: A check forgery ring targeted patients at New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, using private checking account information and stolen identities to take as much as $3,000 from each victim, according to hospital and law enforcement officials. So far, nine victims have been identified by the hospital, but…

ABC is reporting: Tapes containing the billing records of about 1.5 million people dating back 16 years that were stolen last month have been found. There have been no arrests made in connection with the theft. Previous coverage here, here, and here. Update: AP reports that 3 people are in custody and that law enforcement…