Category: Health Data

Taylor Shire reports: REGINA — Four more cases of medical files being found in dumpsters has prompted the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner, Gary Dickson, to take action. Records were found in a Saskatoon dumpster on April 6 and materials were found outside a dumpster in northwest Regina two days later. Two other situations of…

The  University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) has signed an undertaking with the Information Commissioner’s Office after an unencrypted flash drive with patients’ sensitive personal information was discovered  in a training room. Robert Naylor, Chief Executive of University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) indicated that the ICO was notified by  Brighton and Sussex…

The   Borough of Poole has signed an undertaking with the Information Commissioner’s Office as a result of faxing errors. According to the undertaking, signed by John McBride, Chief Executive of the Borough of Poole, faxes containing personal data had been sent to the same incorrect fax number on three separate occasions in 2010.  On the first…

Ken Alltucker reports: A former Southwest Ambulance employee took 581 patient records that included the names, financial and medical information from those customers. Southwest Ambulance recovered the records and notified affected customers about the breach of their private medical records. The Mesa-based company said it recently learned the employee took the records after a property…

Jennifer O’Brien reports: A memory stick containing records of 4,500 kids has gone missing from a speech and hearing clinic at UWO, a thumb-sized example of how ever-smaller digital technology is heightening security risks. Included among the records on the tiny storage device are 11 years worth of names, addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, doctor information,…