From ABS-CBN, more on the scandal reported on this site previously: The chair of the Technical Committee on Nursing Education of Commission on Higher Education (CHED) suggested to revoke the license of the Clinical Instructor (CI) of the student nurse who took a cell phone video of the rectum operation in Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical…
Category: Health Data
Bank of Ireland loses thousands of customer records
Out-Law.com reports: Four laptops containing personal details of 10,000 people have been stolen from the Bank of Ireland (BOI). The Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland is investigating the thefts. Data on the four laptops is not thought to have been encrypted, and BOI will now begin a process of encryption of data on its laptops….
TX: Social Security Numbers Exposed On Hospital Bills
Lauren Grover reports in the Tyler Morning Telegraph: Some 2,000 medical bills were mailed around East Texas last week with patients’ Social Security numbers visible on the envelope after a technical glitch skewed billing at the collection agency used by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler. Chief Operating Officer Rob Marshall at…
Update: Gay Patient To Sue Hospital, Medical Team Over 'YouTube' Video
Preciosa Dumlao writes for AHN News: A gay patient from central Philippines is set to file formal charges against doctors and nurses of a hospital who posted over the Internet video-sharing site YouTube, a video of a medical procedure where doctors removed a perfume canister from his rectum. […] [The victim’s lawyer, Guiller] Ceniza did…
Hackers Breach System At UMass
Lesley Tanner of CBS reports: Hackers breached the computer system used by UMass Amherst’s Health Services, potentially gaining access to thousands of medical records. More than half of the student population at UMass Amherst are patients on record at the University Health Services. […] Though many of the most personal medical records are kept on…
Doctors behaving badly harm all of our health
Dr. Edward V. Craig comments on msnbc.com: […] His words rushed back to me recently as I read on the Internet of two headline-grabbing instances where doctors appeared to have deeply violated patient trust. Last week, a Philippine hospital recommended possible dismissal of a group of surgeons and a nurse whose rowdy, unprofessional behavior while…