Harry Minium and Patrick Wilson report: The Community Services Board employee who collected pay for 12 years without showing up for work was suspended in 1998 after she was accused of revealing confidential medical information about a patient, said two sources who spoke on condition they not be identified. The sources are familiar with a…
Category: Health Data
UK: Mount Vernon patient records go missing? (updated)
A recent breach in the UK has some people upset with the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust for its lack of transparency and left them guessing what hospital had the breach: The health trust responsible for Northwood’s Mount Vernon Hospital has refused to disclose the location of a major security breach involving confidential patient information….
UK: Patients' details lost on train by Hertfordshire doctor (updated)
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has been found in breach of data protection after a doctor lost a memory stick on a train. The junior doctor had recorded details of patients’ conditions and medication on the device and was meant to hand it over to the next doctor on shift. But the doctor forgot…
Steady Bleed: State of HealthCare Data Breaches
George Hulme seems to be singing in harmony with me in an article, “Steady Bleed: State of HealthCare Data Breaches” on InformationWeek where he reviews much of the same data I’ve discussed here as well as the new FairWarning report. You can read his article here.
VA beefs up data security of network devices
Mary Mosquera reports: By the end of September, information security managers at the Department of Veterans Affairs will have the electronic tools in place that will let them see how vulnerable the one million computers and other devices connected to the VA network are.For the last six months, VA has been deploying multiple software applications…
Former UPMC Shadyside Hospital employee charged with HIPAA violation
In the first HIPAA prosecution in the Western District of Pennsylvania, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced this week that a resident of Monroeville, Pa., had been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of multiple illegal disclosures and use of patient individually identifiable health information for personal gain. The Health…