Under fire Health Service Executive (HSE) chiefs were staring at yet another embarrassing controversy last night after private records were stolen in Longford. The Leader has learned the private documents were stolen from a District Health Nurse’s car last Friday afternoon. The records were concealed inside a handbag which was stolen from a car in…
Category: Health Data
AU: Medical records strewn in abandoned Dore clinic in Hawthorn
Belinda Smith reports: Thousands of children’s medical files from a controversial treatment program for hyperactivity and dyslexia have been left strewn throughout an abandoned clinic in Melbourne’s inner east for the past three years. The files — which include names, dates of birth, home addresses and medication details — were left inside the Dore clinic…
IE: Doctors questioned over security after data breach
Allison Bray reports: Dozens of hospital consultants and doctors are being quizzed by the Data Protection Commissioner over their own security protocols after using an online transcription service that is at the centre of a data security breach scandal. Around 60 consultants and GPs and four hospitals have been sent letters by the commissioner as…
Drive containing info of St. Francis patients lost
Hiran Ratnayake reports: A St. Francis Hospital doctor lost a thumb drive in the spring that contained the unprotected personal health care information of 474 maternity patients. The thumb drive was lost for as long as two weeks and contained the names of the patients and relevant details about their care, St. Francis officials said….
Reznick Group Notified of Potential Security Breach At Former Employee Benefits Service Provider, AssureCare Risk Management
Reznick Group, a top 20 national CPA firm, today announced that it has been informed by AssureCare Risk Management, Inc. (“ARM”), the former service provider of Reznick Group’s employee benefits plan from 2001-2006, that ARM has suffered a security breach of its computer server that may affect former and current Reznick Group employees and their…
IE: Medical records found in Roscommon bin
The HSE is to investigate claims that the private medical records of dozens of patients were found in a bin outside Roscommon County Hospital. A report in the Roscommon People newspaper says the files include the names and addresses of patients, as well as details of their medical conditions and their doctors. The records apparently…