Category: Health Data

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…

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…

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…

An update to a breach affecting Roseway Hospital, reported previously on this blog.  Eva Hoare reports: A Halifax law firm has started a class action against a provincial health authority after a worker accessed the private medical records of hundreds of South Shore patients. […] An investigation into the records breach, made public in mid-June,…

Somehow, BCBS of North Carolina mailed out about 100 members’ old PHI to new members in their new member packets. BCBS is blaming a software glitch. Read more on Examiner.com

HealthImaging reports the follow-up to a breach previously noted on this blog: Gerald Micalizzi, MD, a Connecticut radiologist formerly employed by Advanced Mobile Imaging Radiology, has been fined $20,000 after downloading patients’ personal information, according to a Valley Independent Sentinel report. From Feb. 4, 2010, to March 5, 2010, Micalizzi accessed the records of 957 patients at…