Category: Health Data

Officials have confirmed that personal information for 113 Beebe Medical Center patients was stolen from an employee’s vehicle in Florida. According to Beebe Vice President of Corporate Affairs Wally Hudson, the employee took home a financial statement with patients’ names and Medicare numbers, often the same as a social security number, with the intention of…

A follow-up to a breach reported on this blog in December 2010: The theft of a hospital laptop containing the details of more than 1500 patients could have been an inside job trust bosses have been told. The computer, stolen from Calderdale Royal Hospital, contained 1,569 patient records including names, dates of birth and addresses…

When I think about privacy breaches that can really do harm, I often think of information about mental health issues or sexually transmitted diseases. If the allegations in a NY lawsuit are proven, this is one of those nightmare cases where there are devastating effects of a willful breach by an insider. Jonathan Perlow reports:…

Vancouver Island Health Authority is investigating an apparent privacy breach in which medical records were repeatedly faxed to a Langford roofer. Problems arose in replying to physicians’ faxed requests for procedures in the medical imaging department, said VIHA spokeswoman Suzanne Germain. “This particular medical clinic had their fax number in tiny font on the fax…

Alana Brophy reports: Doctor appointment reminders are pretty common, but when one Boise man received his in the mail, he got a lot more than he wanted on the address line. “My phone number, my date of birth, my wife’s group insurance number and my part B number, which is my Social Security number all…