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PruittHealth Home Health – Low County notifies patients after office burglary

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Dissent

For the fourth time in less than three years, a PruittHealth entity has reported an incident to HHS that affected more than 500 patients. This time, it’s PruiittHealth Home – Low Country in South Carolina.  From their public notice: Beaufort, South Carolina, April 8, 2016 – PruittHealth Home Health – Low Country, a provider of home health…

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Data breach affecting more than 50,000 reported by Medical Colleagues of Texas

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Dissent

The Houston Chronicle reports: Hackers breached the computer network of a doctors’ group in Katy, potentially accessing upward of 50,000 medical records and personnel files, a lawyer for the practice said Wednesday. “It’s a large number of records,” said Dallas attorney Lindsay Nickle, who represents the group, Medical Colleagues of Texas. Computer forensics experts were…

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John McGuinness says HSE in “serious breach of data protection” as patient files stored in unlocked outhouses

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Dissent

MaryAnn Vaughan reports: A Kilkenny Dáil Deputy says the HSE locally has seriously breached Data Protection. John McGuinness says it was brought to his attention that there are boxes of patient and HSE workers’ files stored in unlocked outhouses at the site of their auxiliary hospital on Wolfe Tone Street in Kilkenny. Read more on…

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Ca: North Bay nurse who snooped into 5,800 patients’ records gets four month suspension

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Dissent

May Warren reports that a North Bay nurse who snooped into more than 5,800 patients’ records yet escaped prosecution because of Crown prosecutor delays and mis-steps, has had her license suspended by the College of Nurses of Ontario. Melissa McLellan was the first person ever actually charged under the 2004 Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA),…

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Florida Medical Clinic, PA notifies 1,000 patients after Greenway Health error exposed PHI

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Dissent

The following statement was posted by Florida Medical Clinic, PA on their web site. The incident was reported to HHS on May 4 as impacting 1,000 patients. Please be advised from November 18th, 2015 to January 6th, 2016 your Florida Medical Clinic, PA patient due balance statement (sample statement attached) was accessible to industrial account…

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UK: Coventry hospital apologizes after 24 patients’ medical records found dumped in city bin

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Dissent

Catherine Lillington reports: Medical records of 24 hospital patients have been found dumped in a bin in Coventry. An investigation has now been launched following the discovery of the confidential University Hospital paperwork last week. The location of the bin has not been disclosed, but is not on the hospital site itself. How the information ended up…

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