Liz Kowalczyk reports that four Massachusetts community hospitals – Milford, Holyoke, Carney, and Milton – are investigating how tens of thousands of patient health records, some containing Social Security numbers and sensitive medical diagnoses, ended up in a pile described as 20 feet long by 20 feet wide at Georgetown Transfer Station. Read more of…
Category: Health Data
Ca: Medical records left behind
Brendan Wedley reports: More than 25,000 medical records containing personal information and about 70 computer hard drives were left behind at the former St. Joseph’s hospital when Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) sold the site in October last year, the hospital revealed on Thursday. The records are what hospital officials call working documents, not patient…
DVD with Walsh Pharmacy patient data disappears during mailing
When McKesson Pharmacy Systems mailed Massachusetts-based Walsh Pharmacy a DVD containing information on Walsh Pharmacy patients, the envelope arrived but the DVD was missing. Through its attorney, Walsh Pharmacy notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of the incident involving its business associate systems vendor. Information on the DVD included pharmacy patients’ names, and in…
VA Data Breaches Go Live
Bob Brewin alerts us to another new resource on data breaches: Today the Veterans Affairs Department started posting online its monthly data breach reports as part of its ongoing transparency thing, VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker told a press briefing this morning. He said the latest report (for July) might not make it to…
Portland psychologists’ laptop stolen with confidential info (updated)
From KGW in Oregon: A Portland psychologist who has seen thousands of patients over the years put out a warning Tuesday night after his laptop computer was stolen. The computer contained social security numbers, names and diagnosis information. It was stolen from Dr. David Gostnell’s car last month. Some of his former patients were already…
Ca: Hospital faces privacy probe
Kris Ketonen reports: Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre is being investigated by the province‘s privacy commissioner after copies of medical records containing patient information turned up on north-side city streets last week. The copies of pharmacy orders – containing the names of patients and their doctors, as well as prescription, allergy and progress information…