David Allan-Petale reports: A Perth woman is calling for a female PathWest employee to be “summarily dismissed” after revealing she released confidential medical test results to a man they had both been in a relationship with. The woman, calling herself Suzanne to protect her identity, spoke to 6PR’s Gareth Parker on Tuesday and said around eighteen months…
Category: Health Data
UK: Medical records of Norfolk patients found in a petrol station, a King’s Lynn restaurant and on the pavement
Tom Bristow reports: The region’s hospitals have dismissed staff and said they are tightening up how they look after patients records in the wake of the breaches. More than 650 data protection incidents were reported in the region’s NHS trusts last year, according to data obtained by this newspaper through the Freedom of Information Act….
UK: Hospital staff sacked for prying on patients’ medical records in Suffolk and Colchester hospitals
Tom Bristow reports: Hospital staff have been dismissed and suspended for looking up patients’ confidential medical information. They are among hundreds of data protection breaches reported by the NHS in Suffolk and North Essex in the last two years. No harm was done in the majority of cases but the most common serious breaches involved…
TriPoint Medical Center: Lake Health investigating missing obstetrics records
Tawana Roberts reports: The obstetrics department at Lake Health’s TriPoint Medical Center recently suffered a breach of about 750 OB patients’ protected health information. According to a Lake Health news release, no Social Security numbers or patient financial information was compromised. In June a log book maintained with limited but protected patient health information for…
Surgical Dermatology Group notifies patients after TekLinks hacked
From their web site: On June 7, 2017, Surgical Dermatology Group in Birmingham, Alabama (“SDG”) received notice from its cloud hosting and server management provider, TekLinks, Inc., of a security breach at its Birmingham facility that hosts our server. We immediately initiated an investigation and learned that external hackers had gained access to our server…
Vancouver pot dispensary patient data breach highlights regulatory haze
Dan Fumano reports: Sensitive patient data supplied to a Vancouver cannabis dispensary has been either mishandled or — according to the shop’s owner — stolen, a situation again highlighting the cloud of confusion over the regulation of retail pot. […] A tipster recently contacted Postmedia to say he’d found a computer memory card in a…