WINK News reports: Hundreds of medical records from patients at Radiology Regional Center spilled out on Fowler Street earlier Saturday morning, causing a major traffic tie up. The records included financial accounting statements, old phone bills, invoices and front desk registration information. Read more on WINK News. A county employee seems not to have noticed that doors on the…
Category: Health Data
WI: Mental health counseling clinic notifies patients after laptop with sensitive data stolen
Nathaniel Shuda reports that Fox River Counseling Center has notified 509 patients of a breach of personal and medical information after a burglary in October that involved the theft of an unsecured laptop. The computer contained outpatient mental health records of clients who visited the center from Nov. 7, 2012, to Aug. 19, 2014, and Wisconsin…
Medical Informatics data breach litigation centralized and transferred
Linn Freedman updates us all on litigation stemming from a breach previously reported on this site: We previously reported on the multiple data breach litigation suits filed against Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. following a data breach in May, 2015. On December 10, 2015, the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation centralized the nine pending suits—five pending…
Nursing Home Workers Share Explicit Photos of Residents on Snapchat
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Dec. 21, 2015, 7 a.m. This story was co-published with the Washington Post. Nursing home workers across the country are posting embarrassing and dehumanizing photos of elderly residents on social media networks such as Snapchat, violating their privacy, dignity and, sometimes, the law. ProPublica has identified 35 instances since 2012 in…
Ca: Halifax doctor reprimanded for snooping in case files of injured workers
Claire Mellor reports: The regulatory body for physicians in Nova Scotia has reprimanded a Halifax physician for inappropriately accessing injured workers’ charts at the Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia. A College of Physicians & Surgeons of Nova Scotia decision released Thursday said Dr. Donald Haigh consented to a reprimand for breaching expected standards of…
TX: Former heart clinic employee admits to illegally disclosing patient’s medical records
Yet another “small” breach with big harm. Kevin Krause reports: Ebony Shonte Echols was not happy with a patient — a commercial airline pilot — who complained about the heart clinic where she worked. So she sent his health information to the Federal Aviation Administration against his wishes, federal authorities said. Echols, 35, a former employee…