Category: Health Data

Nondumiso Mbuyazi reports: Medical records of three Field’s Hill accident survivors are missing from King Edward Hospital. The survivors of the horrific Pinetown truck accident were being treated at the hospital for weeks after the September 5 accident that claimed the lives of 24 people. However, they were told last week that their medical records…

Last week, HealthFitness notified Gerdau that there was a possible data breach of the personal health information of some of its employees, spouses and dependents, according to a news release cited in a Jackson Sun news story: The letter notes that HealthFitness, which works as the third-party administrator for Gerdau’s health management and wellness program, discovered…

Oliver Gayle of Miami has been convicted in an tax refund scheme involving the theft of patient information from Mount Sinai Medical Center. Gayle, who was employed as a temp, had a previous felony conviction on RICO/racketeering charges  prior to his employment at the medical center.  The South Florida Business Journal asked the medical center how he…

The following notice is linked from Allina Health‘s home page: Allina Health is committed to protecting the privacy of our patients’ personal information. Regrettably, this notice concerns an incident involving some of that information. A certified medical assistant at an Allina Health clinic viewed patients’ personal health information unnecessarily. Only those caregivers with a role…

I’ve occasionally noted the problems that may arise following a natural disaster. Here’s a case where a health service did its best to ensure patient care following a massive outage due to fire. Although they had a plan in place,  the commissioner’s investigation found that the plan was not sufficiently comprehensive, was not understood by…