Category: Health Data

Jonny Greatrex reports: Bungling Midland medics have lost the personal records of nearly 12,000 NHS patients in just eight months, the Sunday Mercury can reveal. The incredible data loss includes the confidential files of 10,000 people – taken after criminals stole a server from a dental practice. Other incidents saw more than 170 private patient…

The Town of Essex in Massachusetts has posted a notice to its web site that some records of the Essex Youth Commission are “presently unaccounted for.” Based on the Town’s ongoing investigation such documents and computer files are believed to include, but not be limited-to, records relating to the Essex Youth Commission Summer Program and…

The Malaysian High Court has told surgeons in the country to obtain their female patients’ consent before taking pictures of their intimate parts. Judicial Commissioner Chew Soo Ho, in allowing the claim by former reporter Lee Ewe Poh, 51, against general and colorectal surgeon Dr Lim Teik Mau and Loh Guan Lye and Sons Sdn…

The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) has sent letters to patients seen by one of its surgeons over the last three years, alerting them to the possibility that their personal health information may be at risk. Earlier this week, URMC notified 837 current and former surgery patients that one of the doctors who cared…

Just to add to the global perspective, this recent news story from YLE describes a survey conducted in Finland: Private health clinics often fail to keep patients’ data secure, according to a recent survey by the Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman. Meanwhile, the public sector was found to work harder to keep information private….