Category: Health Data

On February 19, 2010, a laptop belonging to a physician affiliated with the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary was stolen while the physician was lecturing in South Korea. The laptop belonged to Dr. Robert Levine, a neurologist with a particular focus on ringing in the ears, or tinnitus. To date, Mass. Eye and Ear has…

Tim Lockette reports: Officials at Regional Medical Center [in Anniston, Alabama] have completed their first look into possible violations of patient privacy at the hospital. But so far, the results of that investigation are, well, private. “This is a peer review document, and as such it is not something we can release to the public,”…

Jim Mendoza reports: Honolulu police are on the lookout for thieves who stole a laptop computer from the Blood Bank of Hawaii that held personal information on nearly 40,000 deferred donors. The crime happened on March 29 at the organization’s Dillingham Donor Center. […] Information stored in one of the laptops included donors’ names, birth…

When you confess something to a pastor, you assume it will be kept confidential. But an Iowa woman says that’s not what happened at the University of Iowa hospitals in Iowa City. Dayna Leichty’s son was being treated at the hospital. At one point, Dayna told a chaplain that she was pregnant. That information ended…

Rick Karlin reports from New York: A compact disc containing the names of 328,000 New Yorkers with developmental and other health issues has been missing for almost a month, prompting a massive desk-by-desk search at the state Department of Health’s Corning Tower headquarters. “We have not been able to locate within our Early Intervention program…