Category: Health Data

Last month, I reported that RxAmerica and Accendo Insurance were notifying 175,000 Medicare beneficiaries that a mailing error exposed their medication name, date of birth, and member ID. It seems that Molina Medicare enrollees were also affected. A notice on their home page says: Attention current or former members of Molina Medicare, Healthy Advantage HMO…

Dennis Romero reports an update to a privacy breach involving the posting of porn actors’ personal and medical information – a breach that I’ve covered on this blog in the past: ?Here’s a first (maybe): The porn industry is in bed with the FBI. Or so it says. And the two made magic happen from…

Thomas MacMillan reports: After 17-year-old Travis Washington died in the Hospital of St. Raphael’s Emergency Room, a hospital clinician present took out a cell phone, snapped a picture of his gunshot wound and sent it off for others to look at. In the wake of that incident, the hospital has fired three employees. A distraught…

Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, is investigating a privacy breach involving the personal health information of 6,490 Ontarians involved in a Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) screening program. CCO announced that the delivery of 15 Screening Activity Reports related to its ColonCancerCheck program cannot be confirmed. The delivery status of an additional 11 reports…

Evelyn King reports: The country’s busiest hospital has said it has no evidence that any patient information has been accessed or disclosed without authorisation. Tallaght Hospital in Dublin, who issued a statement last night, said it had notified the Data Protection Commissioner’s office about unsubstantiated allegations about unauthorised disclosure of personal data and the steps…

The Data Protection Commissioner has confirmed that he has received a preliminary verbal report from Tallaght Hospital, concerning a potential data security breach. The telephone report to the Commissioner was made by the hospital yesterday evening, after a series of questions were put to the hospital by RTÉ News, concerning the supply of medical records…