Jesse Buchanan reports: State Attorney General George Jepson has ended an investigation into last year’s data breach at MidState Medical Center and hasn’t called for any further action. MidState informed the public in April of last year that 93,500 patients’ files were downloaded onto a hard drive at Hartford Hospital by an employee who took…
Category: Health Data
NC: Judge orders political consultant to destroy all patient records obtained from candidate's office during campaign
An update to a case previously mentioned on this blog. Jordan Green reports: A Winston-Salem dentist who made an unsuccessful bid for Congress earlier this year went to court today to try to mitigate the damage of confidential patient information allegedly released to a political consultant whom he fired a couple weeks before the primary….
Ca: BCIT warns medical database security breached
From CBC News: BCIT [British Columbia Institute of Technology] has issued a warning to students and staff after one of its computers servers containing the personal medical records of more than 12,680 students was hacked. The Vancouver-area post-secondary school says a regular security audit determined an unauthorized third party accessed the server used by the…
NC: Ex-candidate Peller says former campaign manager stole his dental patients' records
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…
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…