This is the kind of insider breach that makes patients lose confidence in hospitals. I am not surprised that the jury came down hard on the hospital. Of the $300,000 award, $295,000 is punitive damages against the hospital for not doing anything against the doctor when they were made aware of the problem. A Coffee…
Category: Health Data
Ca: Privacy breach at Queen Elizabeth Hospital spurs surveillance of an employee’s access to health charts
Brian Higgins reports: P.E.I.’s privacy watchdog wants Health PEI to keep closer tabs on one of its employee’s use of patient health records, following a privacy breach last year at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. That’s according to a new report by Information and Privacy Commissioner Karen Rose, posted May 30. According to the report, in March…
Two lists with names and details of 33 patients from Letterkenny General Hospital found after being dumped
The Irish Sun reports: Two lists containing the names and details of 33 patients from a Donegal hospital were found dumped in Letterkenny in recent weeks. The latest serious breach in patient confidentiality at Letterkenny General Hospital has been confirmed by Saolta, the company which governs the hospital. Read more on Irish Sun.
Ca: Nova Scotia Health Authority suffers data breach, nearly 3,000 patients possibly affected
Alexander Quon reports: The Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) is in the process of notifying nearly 3,000 people about a potential privacy breach involving personal health information, the organization announced on Monday. The health authority says the breach was detected by its IT team on May 13, 2019, after an employee’s email account was compromised…
Kingman Regional Medical Center investigating potential breach of PHI
Agata Popeda reports: Kingman Regional Medical Center reported a “security incident” on its website, which was shut down on April 8 and, after two months, still remains under construction. The hospital established that “the configuration of the website made it possible for unauthorized person(s) to view some information entered into the website by KRMC customers,”…
And so it begins… state attorneys general investigating American Medical Collection Agency breach
From the Illinois Attorney General’s Office: Chicago — Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong today announced an investigation into the data breach at American Medical Collection Agency, which may have exposed the personal information of nearly 12 million patients of Quest Diagnostics (Quest) and 7.7 million Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp) patients. Raoul…