The I-Team has uncovered hundreds of thousands dollars’ worth of expensive equipment and property at VA hospitals in Tampa and Bay Pines has been lost or stolen in the last two years. The list includes televisions, lap tops computers, and microscopes. But the most serious loss was not the most expensive item. A camera, used…
Category: Health Data
Ca: Steele uncovers major medical privacy breach
How not to write a disclosure letter: The medical records of 450 people have been compromised after a laptop and a USB drive containing personal information were lost by a medical student. Carolina Becerra received a letter from Vancouver Coastal Health dated Oct. 6 stating that her hospital records from Vancouver General Hospital went missing…
UK: NHS doctors, nurses and admin staff breached patients' confidentiality 802 times in the past 12 months
Sophie Borland reports: NHS staff are exposing highly sensitive information about patients up to five times a week by posting messages about them on Facebook, discussing illnesses in public or losing their medical files. Figures show that in the past 12 months doctors, nurses and admin workers breached patients’ confidentiality some 802 times. And nearly…
UK: Patients’ details found in public bins, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire signs undertaking
University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust breached the Data Protection Act by losing patients’ medical information on two separate occasions, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The ICO’s action and press release was intended to make the point that even “small” breaches in terms of numbers are important and can indicate a pattern…
Leak of Emory patient records could affect thousands
David Ibata reports on a breach that I covered on DataBreaches.net with a follow-up. In today’s developments, we learn that the breach also affected a healthcare entity: Nine Emory Healthcare patients have become victims of identity theft in a case that could affect the records of as many as 7,000 people, Channel 2 Action News reported…
SA: Worker: Hospital told boss my HIV status
A domestic worker has complained to the SA [South African] Human Rights Commission about hospital staff telling her employer she is HIV positive, The Times reported on Monday. “You are dying and pregnant… I know… the lab told me you are sick,” her boss reportedly yelled at her when she arrived at work after spending…