From the University of Kentucky: The University of Kentucky is notifying 2,027 people of a breach of protected health information. Between June 18 and June 21, 2010, a laptop computer containing information from the Newborn Screening Program was stolen from the Department of Pediatrics Newborn Screening Program. The theft was reported to the UK Police…
Category: Health Data
Do Healthcare Data Breaches Really Lag Other Industries?
Over on HealthLeaders Media, Dom Nicastro has an article with the optimistic headline, “Healthcare Data Breaches Lag Other Industries.” Unfortunately, the article is based on the recent Verizon-USSS report. As I’ve previously commented, the results of that study are at odds with other studies that are based more on media reports and other resources. As…
Ca: Medical records found in vacant office
Laura Tester reports on yet another breach involving paper records, this one in Canada: A Red Deer physician violated a provincial law after 10 large boxes of patient records were left behind during an office move, says a report released by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner on Wednesday. Provincial investigator Brian Hamilton…
Stolen Yale laptop has health info of 1,000 people
Yale School of Medicine today began notifying approximately 1,000 people whose clinical health information was contained on a laptop computer that was stolen last month. There is no indication that any individual information on the computer has been misused, officials said. Yale and New Haven police departments have been working together and will continue to…
UK: Medical notes lost in car park
Confidential patient medical records and a blank prescription pad have been found strewn across a Dudley clinic’s car park. The shocking lapse in security over patients’ intimate medical details could land The Central Clinic, Hall Street, in trouble as the blunder breaks several data protection laws and regulations. […] Dr Paul Brian Varney Brettell, whose…
Other new HHS revelations on breaches
An update to HHS’s web site this morning includes some recent breaches we already knew about from other sources, but it but also includes a few breaches we didn’t know about or additional information on other breaches. In addition to the Wright State Physicians incident, reported in another post: Beauty Dental, Inc. in Illinois reported…