Anemona Hartocollis of the New York Times answers one of the questions I had about the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center breach. Citing a hospital spokesperson, she writes: The mistake was found in early July, after a relative of a patient found information from that patient on the Internet and told the hospital about it. The…
Category: Health Data
Information for Thousands of Columbia University Medical Center Patients on Internet (updated)
MyFoxNY reports: Personal information — including names and some clinical data — of thousands of patients at Columbia University Medical Center ended up freely visible on the Internet, Columbia and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital have confirmed. The information on 6,800 patients was “inadvertently” placed on a server, hospital officials reported. But whose server? Were the data posted to one of…
Update on Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center breach allegations
Last week I posted links to a controversy as to whether Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Arkansas had actually experienced a privacy breach or not. The story just gets weirder and weirder. The medical center released the following press release, available on FierceHealthcare, but not, apparently on their web site or on the site…
Lessons From A Security Breach
Ed Sperling writes: In late July Kern Medical Center’s information system came to a grinding halt. The hospital believed it had the standard security systems in place to protect its medical records. But for 16 long days that stretched into August, the hospital struggled to get its systems operational and isolate the problem from its…
Ie: Computer Containing Patient Data Stolen From Ennis Hospital
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has confirmed that a computer containing patient information has been stolen during a break-in at Ennis General Hospital. Gardaí, the HSE and the Data Protection Commissioner are investigating the theft which occurred at Clare’s county hospital last week. […] The HSE has launched it’s own investigation into the matter however…
Ca: Privacy breach must be treated as serious crime
An editorial in the Star Phoenix begins: The biggest threat to the security of Canadians’ personal information, especially their medical records, isn’t from computer hackers, it would seem, but from those within the bureaucracy who access and share these records for personal or political purposes. And until governments begin to treat these grievous abuses as…