Guillermo Contreras reports: A San Antonio man pleaded guilty this week to possessing numerous medical files stolen from an area doctor, while a local woman was indicted separately for using stolen identifying information in a bank fraud scam. Douglas Allen Ewert, 28, entered the guilty plea Tuesday to fraud related to stolen identification documents after…
Category: Health Data
OK State Dept. of Health: Stolen laptop contained personal and medical information on 133,000
A press release from the Oklahoma State Department of Health, issued today: The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) is notifying nearly 133,000 individuals that their names and some personal information may have been contained on an agency laptop computer that was stolen from an OSDH employee’s car last week. A database related to the…
OK State Dept. of Health: Stolen laptop contained personal and medical information on 133,000
A press release from the Oklahoma State Department of Health, issued today: The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) is notifying nearly 133,000 individuals that their names and some personal information may have been contained on an agency laptop computer that was stolen from an OSDH employee’s car last week. A database related to the…
NI: Security breach over cancer records
The Belfast Trust is reassuring cancer patients their medical records are safe, after an inquiry was launched by the Information Commissioner following a major security breach. It is claimed up to twenty thousand x-rays and patient files were abandoned at the old Belvoir Park hospital in 2008. The Belfast Trust said all patients’ records at…
UK: Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence admits it doesn't know what happened to files containing sensitive personal data
In the second of two undertakings announced by the Information Commissioner’s Office on April 11, the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE) was found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act after the possible loss of documents from complaint review files containing sensitive personal data. The ICO notes, however, that “due to weaknesses…
UK: Medical histories of children and birth mothers lost in move – NHS Liverpool Community Health
In one of two undertakings announced by the Information Commissioner’s Office, NHS Liverpool Community Health indicated that it had breached the Data Protection Act (DPA) by losing papers relating to the medical history of both 31 preschool children and their birth mothers during a premises move in October 2010. The ICO’s investigation found that NHS…