In the aftermath of a breach: The province’s privacy watchdog is ordering Cancer Care Ontario to stop sending screening reports to doctors in paper format. Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian says the agency must find a more secure method to transfer the results, which contain personal health information. She says the agency has decided…
Category: Health Data
Stolen hard drive could affect 582 Ohioans enrolled in United Healthcare Medicare plans – but they’re just finding out more than 3 months later
Tim Tresslar reports: United Healthcare said Tuesday a hard drive containing information on 582 Ohioans who are members of its Medicare plans has been stolen from a vendor.The Minnetonka, Minn.-based company said it is notifying the affected members by mail. United HealthCare’s commercial health plans are not affected. The hard drive belonged to Futurity First Insurance Group,…
Stolen hard drive could affect 582 Ohioans enrolled in United Healthcare Medicare plans – but they're just finding out more than 3 months later
Tim Tresslar reports: United Healthcare said Tuesday a hard drive containing information on 582 Ohioans who are members of its Medicare plans has been stolen from a vendor.The Minnetonka, Minn.-based company said it is notifying the affected members by mail. United HealthCare’s commercial health plans are not affected. The hard drive belonged to Futurity First…
Malpractice lawyer loses hard drive with patient records
Tricia Bishop reports: A Baltimore law firm lost a portable hard drive containing information about its cases, including medical records for 161 stent patients suing cardiologist Mark G. Midei for alleged malpractice at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson. The drive was lost Aug. 4 by an employee of the firm Baxter, Baker, Sidle, Conn & Jones who was traveling…
Ca: Medical records found on Chilliwack street
Tyler Olsen reports: Fraser Health is promising an investigation and review of privacy policies at Chilliwack General Hospital (CGH) after internal records bearing the names of patients ended up on a Chilliwack road. In late September, a resident of Tamihi Way found three pieces of paper from CGH on a street in the Garrison Crossing…
Breach at Genentech vendor puts patients at risk of identity theft
Like other companies, Genentech has a patient support program to assist patients who cannot afford needed medications. Unhappily, the patient support program data, maintained by an unnamed vendor, was breached. Genentech reported the breach to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on September 29, noting that they had been informed of the breach on August…