Tom Bristow reports: Hospital staff have been dismissed and suspended for looking up patients’ confidential medical information. They are among hundreds of data protection breaches reported by the NHS in Suffolk and North Essex in the last two years. No harm was done in the majority of cases but the most common serious breaches involved…
Category: Health Data
TriPoint Medical Center: Lake Health investigating missing obstetrics records
Tawana Roberts reports: The obstetrics department at Lake Health’s TriPoint Medical Center recently suffered a breach of about 750 OB patients’ protected health information. According to a Lake Health news release, no Social Security numbers or patient financial information was compromised. In June a log book maintained with limited but protected patient health information for…
Surgical Dermatology Group notifies patients after TekLinks hacked
From their web site: On June 7, 2017, Surgical Dermatology Group in Birmingham, Alabama (“SDG”) received notice from its cloud hosting and server management provider, TekLinks, Inc., of a security breach at its Birmingham facility that hosts our server. We immediately initiated an investigation and learned that external hackers had gained access to our server…
Vancouver pot dispensary patient data breach highlights regulatory haze
Dan Fumano reports: Sensitive patient data supplied to a Vancouver cannabis dispensary has been either mishandled or — according to the shop’s owner — stolen, a situation again highlighting the cloud of confusion over the regulation of retail pot. […] A tipster recently contacted Postmedia to say he’d found a computer memory card in a…
UK: Midwifery assistant guilty of spying on 29 patients’ medical records from Harwich and Colchester
Vicky Gayle reports: A midwifery assistant who described herself as nosy snooped into 29 people’s medical records including a man who had taken an overdose and parents of her children’s friends. Brioney Woolfe was reported to the head of midwifery at Colchester General Hospital when someone discovered their medical records had been shared with her…
NJ: Documents with sensitive information found in used office furniture
News12 in NJ reports: Hundreds of employment documents with sensitive information were found inside some used office furniture. […] Most of the forms seem to have come from employees at a health group based in New Jersey. News 12 reached out to the company for comment, but did not hear back. Read more on…