Tighter rules for faxing medical documents are needed after a privacy breach last year, Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner says. Information and privacy commissioner Gary Dickson said Monday that after a Saskatoon medical clinic changed its fax number, another business in town got its old number — and received 60 faxes containing private health information. Read more…
Category: Health Data
(Update) FL: Woman sentenced for stealing identity to get bigger breast implants
Jon Burstein of the Sun-Sentinel brings us up-to-date on a case of medical identity theft covered previously on this site. A Tamarac woman who broke the law to get bigger breast implants was sentenced Monday morning to two and a half years in federal prison. Shatarka Nuby, 29, pleaded guilty in August to aggravated identity theft and a…
Confidential patient details posted online by NHS East Sussex Downs and Weald
Confidential patient information has been inadvertently posted on a website in an NHS blunder. Patients’ names, dates of birth, NHS numbers and treatment and procedures were inadvertently included in an electronic spreadsheet file which formed part of a response to a Freedom of Information request sent out in May last year. The information was later…
(update) Holy Cross Hospital (FL) breach affected 1500
As a small update to the Holy Cross Hospital breach reported previously on this site: Holy Cross’s report to HHS indicates that 1500 patients were affected by the July 27th theft of paper records. It’s not clear why the hospital took until Dec. 2 to report the incident to HHS as it had publicly revealed…
Three recent reports on HHS's breach site
Manor Care of Indy (South), LLC in Indianapolis recently notified HHS that 845 individuals were notified of a breach involving their PHI. The breach type was coded as “Unauthorized Access/Disclosure, Paper Records.” I cannot find a web site or any additional information on this incident at this time. Prime Home Care, LLC of Nebraska reported…
Investigation into Potential Patient Privacy Breach at Oklahoma City VA Medical Center Finds No Malicious Activity
The following press release was issued Nov. 22 and refers to a VA incident originally discussed in a previous blog entry. Last month, the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center discovered a handwritten log book with 1,950 patients’ names and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers was missing from a respiratory laboratory. After an extensive…