This sounds ugly. Michael Hewlett reports: Bruce Peller, who lost the Democratic primary for the 5th Congressional District seat, is accusing his former campaign manager, Christopher Church, of stealing information about 10,000 current and former patients from a computer at Peller’s dental practice. Church has fired back, accusing Peller of emailing him the information and…
Category: Health Data
Lawsuit accuses UW hospital of revealing patient’s HIV status
Ed Treleven reports: Instead of waking him from a nap, a UW Hospital resident told the wife and son of a southern Wisconsin man in 2010 that he had AIDS and left it to them to give him the news, according to a lawsuit filed against the hospital Friday. The news left the man’s wife…
NC: Private, Medical Information Left Out in a Dumpster
Jonathan Rodriguez reports: 9 On Your Side is investigating a case of medical records privacy. A viewer told us about finding some documents with personal, medical information dropped in a dumpster. […] Right at the top of the trash can we found check receipts, email addresses, phone numbers, and a lot more personal information. It’s…
OH: Veterans' records found at home of deceased Dayton VA medical center employee
John Nolan reports: A disabled Marine veteran received a letter from the Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center this week stating that personal medical records for him and other veterans — documents including birth dates and Social Security numbers — were found in the former home of a deceased VA staff employee. Angelo Arnold, 51, of…
TX: Stolen computer contained data on 30,000 MD Anderson patients
Eric Berger reports: A laptop computer containing information on 30,000 patients at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center has been stolen. The loss, reported Thursday, is one of the largest of its kind at a Texas Medical Center institution. The data included specific medical information on about 10,000 of the patients, and was on an unencrypted computer…
UK: Inquiry call over missing NHS records
More than 100 health records – almost half of them in NHS Grampian – went missing in Scotland last year. The 104 files included personal details of children and sensitive health information, according to details in a Freedom of Information response. NHS Grampian insisted its 50 records were not “lost” but “reported missing”. Read…