From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of New Zealand: A man, M, who was involved in legal proceedings with his former partner, X, was a patient of a medical centre. The medical centre previously provided medical care to M and his family when he and X were still together. X visited the medical centre with…
Category: Health Data
UK: Dorset HealthCare Trust send confidential health faxes by mistake
Joanna Codd reports: Highly confidential faxes about people with mental health problems have been mistakenly sent to a Bournemouth business over a period of 18 months. Despite the business alerting officials to the problem, the documents have continued to arrive at the offices of Cole Valuations in Exeter Road at the rate of two or…
WA: HACKED: Kadlec notifying patients of computer server breach
From the staff of Tri-City Herald: Kadlec Regional Medical Center officials announced today that patients are being notified that one of the hospital’s computer servers containing brain scan and other patient studies was hacked in September. Files housed on the server included information including a patient’s name, birth date, age, gender, medical record number and…
Seacoast Radiology Computer Server Breached – 231,400 Patients Notified
From a Seacoast Radiology press release: Seacoast Radiology, PA discovered on November 12, 2010 that an office server containing personal patient data and billing information was accessed by an unauthorized third party. Access to this server was disabled immediately and an independent investigation concluded that unauthorized use of patient and billing data is unlikely. All patients…
3 UMC staffers, another worker fired for violating patient privacy
Julie Steigerwald reports for KOLD in Tucson: University Medical Center says three employees and one contracted nurse have been fired for inappropriately accessing confidential electronic medical records in violation of UMC policy. This comes in the wake of several high-profile patients receiving treatment at UMC following the shooting at Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ congressional event Saturday,…
NC: OCR clears hospital of charges in HIPAA complaint, patient sues
Emily Ford reports that although OCR found no violation of HIPAA’s Privacy Rule, a patient at the Rowan Regional Medical Center has filed a lawsuit against the center, alleging privacy violations. Rowan Regional Medical Center will undergo voluntary corrective action next month after a former patient filed a privacy complaint against the hospital. Federal investigators…