Category: Health Data

Jennifer Wadsworth reports: Someone broke into an eye doctor’s office on May 8 and stole a laptop with information about hundreds of patients. The burglar broke into the offices of EyeCare Associates of the San Ramon Valley and took the laptop, which held eye photos and names of 611 patients. There was a lock on…

The Information Commissioner’s Office has found that Somerset County Council breached the Data Protection Act by sending a social service assessment about a local teenager to the wrong family. The Council reported the breach to the ICO in February 2011, shortly after the incident took place. The ICO’s investigation found that the assessment – which…

Bob Hansen reports: Before Michael Winter could open his mail, he was shocked by what he found on the envelope. “You know they have no right,” said Winter after finding his social security number printed on the front of an envelope mailed to him from Anthem Blue Cross. The number was printed just above his…

In addition to notifying approximately 6,000 patients about a stolen laptop, Speare Memorial Hospital apparently had some non-patients to notify, too. By letter dated April 29 to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, Speare reports that it was notifying 54 New Hampshire residents that their names, and in some cases, National Provider Identifiers, NH Medical…

The man who pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to receive and disclose University Medical Center of Southern Nevada (UMC) patient records in order to solicit clients for personal injury attorneys, was sentenced on May 4 to 33 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release. Richard W. Charette, 55, of Las Vegas,…