Confidential records of patients at Stafford Hospital have been found in the Accident and Emergency car park. Bosses at Stafford Hospital have said such incidents are rare and confirmed any breaches of security would be taken seriously. Brenda and Stephen Yeomans, bo th 46, were visiting Brenda’s father on Wednesday evening when they saw a…
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Veterans Affairs ‘broken,’ says advocate concerned with privacy breach
David Pugliese reports: Sean Bruyea may not seem like an enemy of the state but when he leafs through the 14,000 pages of documents that Veterans Affairs Canada compiled on him, he sometimes gets that impression. Veterans Affairs bureaucrats monitored the Ottawa man’s media appearances and his advocacy activities before Parliament, in which he called…
UK: Hundreds of confidential reports go missing
Nearly 400 confidential records were reported missing in the West Midlands in just three months, according to new figures. A total of 387 patient and staff records went missing or were stolen between April and June this year. Two other incidents, when unknown numbers of records went missing, also took place. It brings the total…
AR: X-Ray Films Stolen from Summit Medical Center
If Yogi Berra were writing this one up, he might say “It’s deja vu all over again.” Alicia Agent reports: Van Buren Police are looking for two men who stole old radiology films from Summit Medical center. Police believe the men took the x-rays so they could be melted down for silver. On August 12,…
More on the Johns Hopkins Hospital-related indictments
Yesterday, when indictments were announced in an ID theft case involving a former employee of Johns Hopkins Hospital, I contacted the hospital to ask whether this was an incident that we had previous knowledge about in the media or blogosphere or if it was news to us. A spokesperson for the hospital just emailed me the…
Fairmont Medical Center fires 6 employees for snooping
A few weeks ago, the Mayo Clinic fired an employee who had been snooping in patient records for years. Now Meg Alexander reports that Fairmont Medical Center – Mayo Health has fired six employees for breaching patient confidentiality: Six employees have been fired by Fairmont Medical Center because of a breach in patient confidentiality,…