A health service van carrying sensitive information has been stolen from a Kent surgery. The driver of the vehicle walked into the surgery in Cheriton Road, Folkestone, and when he returned to unload the van it was gone. Vans run between William Harvey Hospital in Ashford and local GP surgeries twice daily transporting patient samples…
Category: Health Data
FL: Patient Files Found in Folkston Trash at a Closed Physicians' Office Yields a Box of Abandoned Medical Records
Gordon Jackson reports: FOLKSTON – Residents combing through trash left at a closed physicians’ office under renovation found a box of medical records this week. […] The records were apparently left in the office when physicians closed their practices there several years ago. The unidentified woman who discovered the records turned them over to…
GA: Private medical data exposed
Andy Miller reports: Georgia’s largest health insurer sent an estimated 202,000 benefits letters containing personal and health information to the wrong addresses last week, in a privacy breach that also raised concerns about potential identity theft. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia said Monday that the erroneous mailings were primarily Explanation of Benefits (EOB)…
Kelsey-Seybold Clinic patients in second breach or one multi-year breach?
Bob Dunn had an eyebrow-raising story on FortBendNow.com earlier this week. The story concerned recent grand jury indictments of 38 people involved in stealing identities to use for a payday loan scheme. Dunn writes, in part: Tracy Spencer-Gilmore, formerly with Kelsey Seybold Clinic, was one of 38 people indicted over the past several weeks in…
Health Care Provider Blogs Do Not Maintain Anonymity, Study Says
Physician and nurse bloggers sometimes inadvertently reveal their identities, as well as their patients’ identities, according to a new study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, USA Today‘s “A Better Life” reports. The study is available online (.pdf). Source – iHealthBeat Brian Robinson of Government Health IT also has an article on the study.
Grady patients' medical records stolen
Craig Schneider reports: The FBI is investigating the theft of medical records of patients at Grady Memorial Hospital, officials said Friday. Grady spokeswoman Denise Simpson provided few details on the thefts that were discovered late Thursday. She said it remains unknown how many patient records were stolen, which patients were affected or how the records…