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UK: Computer failure puts cancer sufferers at risk

Posted on June 27, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

Suspected cancer patients at top London hospitals have missed critical appointments after their records were lost by a new multi-billion-pound computer system. Patients missed appointments with a specialist within the necessary two weeks because of problems with the new Care Records Service installed under the NHS £12.7 billion Programme for IT (NPfIT). Problems arose in…

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FL: Medical Records Discovered In Trash Bin

Posted on June 26, 2008 by Dissent

The Rockledge Police Department confiscated medical records from a trash bin behind the Rockledge Urgent Care Center Inc. Full story – Local 6

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NHS misses data-encryption target

Posted on June 26, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

Nick Heath of silicon.com reports: NHS trusts will not have completed encrypting patients’ personal data held on their computers until later this year. A number of health trusts are expected to be months late in meeting a target to encrypt all data on non-secure machines by 31 March, 2008. Full story – ZDNet Thanks to…

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Fired Houston organ bank worker accused of hacking into system

Posted on June 26, 2008 by Dissent

Cindy George of the Houston Chronicle reports on a hacking case that thankfully did not result in an interruption of patient care: The fired technology director of a Houston organ donation company has been accused of hacking into its computer system and deleting records. A federal indictment alleges that over two days in November 2005,…

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Stolen records, ID lead to TV shopping spree

Posted on June 26, 2008 by Dissent

Gary V. Murry of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette staff reports: A Sutton woman will undergo a psychological evaluation after admitting in court yesterday that she used personal information from a cancer patient’s stolen medical records to buy about $2,500 worth of collectible coins from a home shopping network. Charlotte A. Boehm, 55, formerly of…

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University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics still looking for stolen data

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Dissent

There’s still no trace of purloined tapes containing backup copies of billing records from University Hospital that stretch back 16 years, but individual patients are beginning to receive letters telling them of the theft and what they can do. The U. has winnowed the list — once believed to contain 2.2 million people — down…

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