Monte Sonnenberg reports: A nurse at Norfolk General Hospital has been fired for inappropriately accessing patient files. The hospital reported Tuesday that the privacy breach occurred from October, 2004, to March of this year. On Thursday, NGH notified 1,300 patients in writing that their privacy may have been violated. Read more on Brantford Expositor. If…
Category: Health Data
Caledonia Home Health and Hospice notifies patients of stolen Netbook
Vermont-based Caledonia Home Health and Hospice is notifying patients after Netbook was stolen from an employee’s home on July 20. In a letter dated August 6 to those affected, the hospice writes: The Netbook contained the home health program, Palmwyse in which patient protected information, including social security numbers, was documented. A police report has been filed…
ICO announces two new undertakings
The Information Commissioner’s Office announced two undertakings that were issued. Northern Health and Social Care Trust 13 August 2013 An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Northern Health & Social Care Trust. This follows a number of security incidents which led to a formal investigation into the Trust’s…
Walgreens Sued for Sharing Patient’s Private Medical Info
Josh Crank provides additional coverage on a case previously mentioned on this blog: A jury ordered Walgreen Co. to pay $1.44 million to an Indiana woman after one of its pharmacists illegally accessed and shared her medical information. But according to conventional legal wisdom, that lawsuit should never have made it to trial. The suit…
Former employee of Resources for Human Development sentenced for stealing mental health residents' information for tax refund fraud scheme
Another update on a breach previously mentioned on this blog. From a July 24 press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland: U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Derrick Elrod, age 35, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to three years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for bank fraud…
Paper records account for most Veterans Affairs data breaches
Frank Konkel reports: The leading cause of data breaches at the Department of Veterans Affairs continues to be paper-based records, according to VA Acting Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology Stephen Warren. Warren briefed reporters Aug. 8 on the data breach reports his agency submitted to Congress for April, May and June, and stated that…