Nondumiso Mbuyazi reports: Medical records of three Field’s Hill accident survivors are missing from King Edward Hospital. The survivors of the horrific Pinetown truck accident were being treated at the hospital for weeks after the September 5 accident that claimed the lives of 24 people. However, they were told last week that their medical records…
Category: Health Data
Gerdau notifies employees of privacy breach after HealthFitness laptop stolen
Last week, HealthFitness notified Gerdau that there was a possible data breach of the personal health information of some of its employees, spouses and dependents, according to a news release cited in a Jackson Sun news story: The letter notes that HealthFitness, which works as the third-party administrator for Gerdau’s health management and wellness program, discovered…
Online security breach at SAH disgruntles many job seekers
Darren Taylor reports: A SooToday.com reader has informed us that he has been the target of unsolicited emails, texts and telemarketing calls, and claims this is the result of a mishap involving the Sault Area Hospital (SAH) website’s online job application system. The reader was notified by SAH in a letter dated October 24, 2013…
Former Mount Sinai Medical Center employee convicted in patient ID theft for tax refund fraud scheme
Oliver Gayle of Miami has been convicted in an tax refund scheme involving the theft of patient information from Mount Sinai Medical Center. Gayle, who was employed as a temp, had a previous felony conviction on RICO/racketeering charges prior to his employment at the medical center. The South Florida Business Journal asked the medical center how he…
Notice for Allina Health patients regarding privacy incident
The following notice is linked from Allina Health‘s home page: Allina Health is committed to protecting the privacy of our patients’ personal information. Regrettably, this notice concerns an incident involving some of that information. A certified medical assistant at an Allina Health clinic viewed patients’ personal health information unnecessarily. Only those caregivers with a role…
Ca: AHS cited for privacy breach after devastating Shaw fire
I’ve occasionally noted the problems that may arise following a natural disaster. Here’s a case where a health service did its best to ensure patient care following a massive outage due to fire. Although they had a plan in place, the commissioner’s investigation found that the plan was not sufficiently comprehensive, was not understood by…