Category: Health Data

Ed Komenda reports: With a few key strokes and clicks of a mouse, an employee with the Palm Beach County Health Department accessed everything. The employee used a computer to view all manner of patient records. Names, prescriptions, social security numbers: nothing new to someone who had walked through the department’s halls for years. But…

Eric Van Susteren reports: A computer containing medical records and personal information for approximately 2,500 patients was stolen from a Stanford physician’s locked office sometime between July 15 and 16, according to Stanford University Medical Center. The computer, which may also have held some patient social security numbers, was outfitted with software that would detect…

The newest additions to HHS’s breach tool reveals more breaches I hadn’t known about previously: Wolf & Yun in Kentucky reported that 824 patients were affected by a laptop theft on April 24th. A public notice on the breach posted in the Courier-Journal on July 20 explains: Public Notice Information on the limited theft of…

CBC News reports: Health authorities in Labrador and central Newfoundland acknowledge they have disciplined workers for previously-unreported privacy breaches. Last year, Central Health admitted to a serious breach of privacy involving 19 patients. The employee responsible was fired. Since then, the board has not publicly reported any other breaches — until being asked by CBC…

More than 1,000 patients in western Newfoundland have had their privacy violated after an employee inappropriately accessed their personal records, a provincial health board said Wednesday. Western Health said it fired the employee after discovering that 1,043 people had their privacy breached. “Western Health would like to apologize to each patient who has had their…