Patrick Christys reports: The NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) should have redirected test results and treatment advice which was sent to the wrong family doctors across swathed of Britain, but it failed to do so. The Government refused to say how many patients were affected by the gaffe, which ran from 2011 until earlier this…
Category: Health Data
Sen. Donnelly Presses Northern Indiana VA on Wrongful Sharing of Veterans’ PHI
July 23, 2016 – Granger, Ind. — U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly pressed the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Northern Indiana Health Care System following recent and troubling reports that the VA had mistakenly sent veterans’ personal health information to the wrong veteran. Donnelly sent a letter to Jay Miller, Director of the Department of Veterans…
Sunbury Plaza Dental notifies patients after stored records were burglarized
Sunbury Plaza Dental in Ohio has notified HHS of a breach that impacted 7,784 patients. Their public notice explains that on May 25, they were notified by local law enforcement that their secured storage unit containing business records had been burglarized sometime between March 10th and March 20, 2016. We were not aware of any…
Wyoming officials investigate medical office documents
It sounds like something broke down somewhere in the disposal of 96 boxes of medical office documents found in a dumpster, but it’s not yet clear who’s responsible. The Wyoming Board of Medicine reported Monday that medical office documents from College Hill Health Center have been retrieved but the board has not had a chance…
CO: Lasair Aesthetic Health notifying patients after manager took information after resigning
According to HHS’s breach tool, 1,835 patients were notified of this incident. I wonder what the former employee intended to do with the stolen information. Notice to Lasair Aesthetic Health patients regarding Privacy Incident Lasair Aesthetic Health, P.C. (“Lasair”) is notifying patients about an unauthorized acquisition of some patients’ personal health information. We deeply regret…
Denmark sent sensitive health data to Chinese by mistake
This may be one of the most epic fails disclosed in 2016. There is just so much wrong here…. Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen of Reuters reports: Sensitive health information about almost the entire population of Denmark ended up in the wrong hands when a letter by mistake was sent to a Chinese visa office in Copenhagen, the Danish…