And this, kids, is why you need to monitor employee access to patient records and audit over longer periods. Kyle Spurr reports: A caregiver at St. Charles Health System accessed nearly 2,500 patients’ electronic medical records without authorization from the hospital. The caregiver told the hospital she viewed the files out of curiosity. Her actions…
Category: Health Data
Central Huron Health Records Snooping Case Prosecuted
John Chippa reports: A Justice of the Peace in Goderich has handed down the stiffest fine to date in Canada for a health privacy breach. A university student who was on an educational placement with the family health team in Central Huron has been ordered to pay a $20,000 fine and a $5,000 victim surcharge…
UK: Devon doctors’ surgery says sorry for data breach
C_Abbott reports: A Devon doctors’ surgery that attempted to improve its service for patients has seen its efforts backfire after a newsletter was sent out with patients’ email addresses on display. The security breach affected around 1,000 patients of Pembroke House Surgery in Paignton on Tuesday afternoon. Following the administrative error, the surgery wrote to patients to…
Fourth Circuit To Plaintiffs: “Could” Isn’t Enough For Standing
Matthew J. Siegel of Cozen O’Connor writes: A split continued to develop in the federal courts last month as the Fourth Circuit denied Article III standing to the plaintiffs in a data breach case whose alleged injuries were limited to the increased risk of future identity theft and the cost of measures to protect against…
Cincinnati Eye Institute employees victims of tax refund fraudsters
John Matarese reports that a number of employees of Cincinnati Eye Institute have discovered that their identity information has been misused by criminals filing for tax refunds. While CEI claims that any breach does not involve their system, they are offering their employees credit monitoring protection services. At the present time, it’s not clear whether a business associate…
NZ: Patient data system disabled after problem discovered
Eileen Goodwin reports: A new patient information system used by general practitioners had to be disabled yesterday because of a risk of data breach. The Otago Daily Times learned about the situation in a leaked email to southern GP practices. The patient information system has been introduced over the past couple of months to many GP practices…