From Radio Netherlands: The Data Protection Authority (CBP) says details of people’s medical history are being stored in regional electronic dossiers without their knowledge. The CBP statement is based on investigations into two electronic regional dossiers. It is likely that people who have refused to allow their details to be recorded in the national electronic…
Category: Health Data
Ca: Investigation underway into medical files dumped in downtown dumpster
Liza Yuzda of iNews 880 AM reports that the province’s Information and Privacy Commissioner is launching an investigation after a resident near the Royal Alex found medical records blowing in the wind.
Virus compromises Health Dialog Services employee data
On May 12, Boston-based Health Dialog Services Corporation notified (pdf) the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that they had detected a virus on their network that compromised company data, including data stored in the Internet Explorer browser cache on employee computers. The virus was detected on May 5. The company subsequently determined that the compromised…
MI: State settles lawsuit with psychiatrist
In a case that started in 2007 with medical records being burned on a farm, the Detroit Free Press reports: The Michigan Department of Community Health has settled a civil lawsuit against Southfield psychiatrist Dr. Soon Kim and Quality Health Plan Inc. for improperly disposing medical records from Greater Detroit Hospital in Detroit. Under the…
NY: Suit Planned Over Photo of Slain Woman
John Annese of the Staten Island Advance reports: The distraught parents of a strangled West Brighton woman say they’re planning to sue everyone they feel is responsible for a photo of their daughter’s corpse making its way onto the Internet — including the EMT accused of posting the picture on his Facebook.com profile. Martha and…
UK: Information Commission to probe NHS data security breaches
Richard Staines of Nursing Times reports: A total of 140 security breaches have been reported in the NHS in the first quarter of this year, with tens of thousands of patient records lost, according to the information commissioner. Richard Thomas revealed his concerns in an interview with The Independent, in which he said he has…