Category: Health Data

Alan Cohn reports: An ABC Action News investigation has uncovered local businesses who are carelessly discarding your sensitive personal information. In our second installment of this Taking Action investigation, we’ve uncovered examples of private medical records thrown away unshredded. Among the documents we discovered were blood tests that showed one Tampa woman has Chronic Kidney…

A computer memory stick containing the sensitive information was found by a 12-year-old boy outside an Asda store. It reportedly contained the criminal histories of some violent patients as well as details about staff at the Tryst Park unit at Bellsdyke Hospital. The centre provides care for adults with severe mental health problems. Read more…

Health records belonging to patients were stolen in a break-in at a suburban medical billing company. Patients are now being notified about the security breech. Police tell ABC7 the records were on a portable hard drive and stolen from the Westmont office of Millennium Medical Management Resources. It happened back in February. The company handles…

Teresa Woodard reports: Thousands of documents containing personal, confidential information were discovered in a North St. Louis dumpster. It is the kind of data that could lead to hundreds, if not thousands of cases of identity theft. But there’s no way to know how it got there, or who put it there. […] “I got…

An Invercargill doctor who was reprimanded by the Privacy Commissioner for telling a nursing home one of its employees was a drug addict has been cleared of any wrongdoing in a judicial review. The High Court at Wellington found commissioner Marie Shroff wrongly ruled against general practitioner Robert Henderson over the 2003 disclosure. Dr Henderson…