Yet another hospital employee apparently walked out with records. Erin Allday reports: A mailroom employee at Mills-Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame took home medical documents for roughly 1,500 patients over a nearly year-long period, the health care system announced today. Most of the records contained patient names and diagnostic test results, and 15 of the…
Category: Health Data
UK: Repeated failure to protect privacy of records results in an undertaking for Kirklees Metropolitan Council
When I saw that the Information Commissioner’s Office had required Kirklees Metropolitan Council to sign an undertaking following a breach, the name sounded familiar. But it turns out that it was not the stolen computer breach mentioned on DataBreaches.net two weeks ago, but an earlier breach that occurred in July 2010. From the undertaking: The…
NZ: Medical notes sent in error
Amy Glass reports: John Ritchie just wants his fax machine to stop invading your privacy. Ritchie, 89, of Merivale, has been mistakenly receiving confidential medical records via his home fax machine since the middle of last year. The former University of Canterbury professor of music estimates he has received between 50 to 100 records from…
Nyack Hospital employees warned after sensitive data stolen
Jane Lerner reports: Former and current Nyack Hospital employees, as well as their spouses and children, are at risk of identity theft because a computer hard drive containing personal information was stolen from the hospital, officials said. Sensitive data, including names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers, were stored on a hard drive…
GA: Patient Records Found in Old Pain Clinic Building
Jennifer Griffies reports: A pain clinic in Alpharetta has closed, but not before leaving behind the personal information of many its patients. Alpharetta Police Officer George Gordon says the owner of the now vacant building found the documents. “Discovered literally, just hundreds of files of medical information from former patients of these physicians,” said Gordon….
(follow-up) BCBS of Tenn. Encrypts All Stored Data
After BCBS of Tennessee had that horribly time-consuming and costly breach involving 57 tapes with oodles of personal and protected health information that they had to wade through, they apparently learned their lesson. Howard Anderson writes: BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, which experienced a health information breach affecting nearly 1 million individuals in 2009, has completed the encryption of all…