Category: Health Data

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…