Earlier today I posted a news item about how Medicare numbers of some New Brunswick, Canada patients were being reissued after a breach involving a clinic. This report, below, suggests that the breach was worse than originally reported: New Brunswick’s privacy commissioner says a break-in this month at a Woodstock doctor’s office poses a serious…
Category: Health Data
UK: Organ donation preferences of over 400,000 people recorded inaccurately
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The organ donation preferences of 444,031 people were recorded inaccurately on the Organ Donation Register (ODR) due to a software error, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. In March 2010 NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), who manage the Register, discovered irregularities between the organ donation information stated on Driver…
Management Services Organization (MSO) enters into resolution agreement with HHS
From HHS: On December 13, 2010, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) entered into a Resolution Agreement with Management Services Organization Washington, Inc. (MSO), to settle potential violations of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act Privacy and Security Rules. This settlement arose from and was made in coordination with the HHS…
Ca: Patients get new medicare cards after break-in
The Canadian Press reports: The New Brunswick Health Department is issuing new medicare numbers to some Carleton County patients after a recent break-in. A number of items including laptop computers were stolen from a medical clinic in Woodstock earlier this month. Read more on Metro.
Vermont Attorney General Settles Security Breach Allegations Against Health Net
Attorney General William Sorrell filed a complaint and proposed settlement Friday with Health Net, Inc., and Health Net of the Northeast, Inc., regarding the health insurance company’s loss of an unencrypted portable hard drive containing protected health information. The complaint alleges violations of HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), Vermont’s Security Breach Notice Act, and…
Nurse Fired for Snooping in Tiger Woods' Records Files Defamation Suit
David Rothenberg was the charge nurse on duty at Health Central Hospital in Ocoee on Nov. 27, 2009, as paramedics wheeled in Tiger Woods. The golfer had just crashed his Cadillac Escalade into a tree and fire hydrant outside his Isleworth home. According to Rothenberg, within hours of Woods’s arrival, someone inside the hospital improperly…