CBC News reports that two nurses have been fined for privacy violations that did not involve snooping: Two Manitoba nurses have been slapped with $1,000 fines each in two separate incidents in which the confidential medical information of a patient was shared — in violation of privacy rules. Read more on CBC News.
Category: Health Data
NHS Health Apps Library closing amid questions about app security & quality: what can we learn?
Satish Misra, M.D. writes: The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) launched the Health Apps Library as part of their NHS Choices program in 2013. It was pitched as a pilot program, one that would guide patients and clinicians to safe, effective health apps. And now after a troubled two years, the NHS Health Apps…
NC: DHHS reveals potential Medicaid data breach
WRAL reports that North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services is notifying 1,615 Medicaid patients that a breach of security protocol may have compromised their confidential health information. The breach occurred Aug. 19, when an email with an attached spreadsheet was emailed without encryption to the Granville County Health Department. Although the email was…
Veterans Administration September report includes four breaches, each affecting multiple veterans
Okay, so maybe I jinxed things when I reported how well the Veterans Administration had done in August in reducing the number of breaches involving personal information. By September, it was back to same old, same old. Here’s a brief rundown on the breaches involving personal information of multiple individuals reported by the VA to Congress for the month of…
Alberta Health System investigating alleged privacy breach by 48 Calgary employees
Erica Stark reports: At least one health care worker has been fired and dozens more are facing disciplinary action after allegedly improperly accessing a patient’s information, a claim that the nurse’s union is disputing. Forty-eight employees of Alberta Health Services are under investigation by the health authority and the privacy commissioner after a routine audit revealed…
University of Oklahoma’s Urology Clinic notifying 9,300 of possible HIPAA breach after yet another laptop is stolen from a physician’s car
In July, the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine – Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology notified almost 7,700 patients after a laptop was stolen from physician’s car. Now the University of Oklahoma’s Urology Clinic is notifying 9,300 patients about the theft of another laptop with protected health information. From their statement: The University of Oklahoma takes patient…