Category: Health Data

Rape & Brooks Orthodontics, P.C., a multi-office Alabama practice specializing in braces for children and adults, recently notified 20,744 patients that burglars had broken into their Centerpoint, Alabama office and stolen some equipment, including a server that held personal and protected health information on patients who had been seen over the last 30 years by…

A stolen laptop containing personal and protected health information of 1,700 clients of Catholic Social Services in Anchorage has resulted in a notification to the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services and affected clients. According to a notice on the CSS’s web site dated March 30: on February 2nd, CSS learned of a theft…

Guardian Healthcare Network writes: A North London primary care trust has suffered the most personal data breaches among NHS trusts in the capital over the past three years, according to figures obtained by Guardian Healthcare. The figures showed that out of 30 trusts responding to a freedom of information (FoI) request, NHS Barnet owned up…

Megan Levy reports: A former Victorian forensic worker has admitted to leaking confidential autopsy results and details of “unusual and interesting” deaths to his friends over the past six years, an Ombudsman’s report has revealed. The male technician, who resigned from his job with the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine in January, said he shared…

Dennis Romero reports: It has been a saga much more juicy than any of porn’s non-plots. Nearly three months after reopening as a private entity, AIM Healthcare, the clinic that tests adult performers for STDs, has shut down and filed for bankruptcy, industry sources confirmed to the Weekly. We were told a privacy lawsuit challenging…