Mike Benner and KGW.com Staff report: PORTLAND, Ore. — Providence Health Plans is re-issuing thousands of insurance cards after personal information was accidentally sent to the wrong policy-holders. Officials with Providence Health Plans say about 4,500 mailings were sent out with the incorrect group and member ID numbers, meaning that some policy holders received others’…
Category: Health Data
Ie: Hospital keeps secret DNA file
Mark Tighe reports: A Dublin hospital has built a database containing the DNA of almost every person born in the country since 1984 without their knowledge in an apparent breach of data protection laws. The in Temple Street is under investigation by the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) since The Sunday Times discovered it has a…
Opinion: Administration's shortcomings are not those of WDH
The editors of Foster’s Daily Democrat have an opinion piece in today’s paper that lauds Wentworth-Douglass Hospital for its fine medical care. Perhaps they’ve gotten some flak over their coverage over the breach and allegations of a cover-up. At the end, however, they write: So it is we admire the progress in medicine and surgery….
Ca: Commissioner Cavoukian expects health sector to encrypt all health information on mobile devices: Nothing short of this is acceptable
Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, today directed the province’s health sector not remove from their premises any personal health information on mobile devices – unless this very sensitive information is encrypted, as required in a health order issued in 2007. This follows the loss last week of a USB key containing the…
Health Net disputes CT AG's statement
Emily Berry reports that Health Net has responded to statements by the Attorney General of Connecticut by claiming that there is no proof that a breach earlier this year was due to theft: Citing a report by Kroll, a security firm Health Net hired to investigate, Blumenthal said in a Dec. 7 announcement that Health…
Coroner looking into leak of Brittany Murphy info
Anthony McCartney of Associated Press reports: Coroner’s officials are looking into how the celebrity Web site TMZ obtained details on prescription drugs contained in an investigator’s report on the death of Brittany Murphy. Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said Tuesday he didn’t know how TMZ obtained the confidential report, and that he was concerned other…