Category: Health Data

The government of New Zealand is getting a lot of bad press recently over breaches. Two breaches involving accidental disclosure of information (not reported on this blog because they did not involve any health information) were reported by the Earthquake Commission (EQC) and a recipient of the unintended disclosure.  And now there has been another…

Amy Jeter followed up on the Sentaro/Omnicell breach, and includes some interesting statistics in her reporting: Last year, less than 1 percent of 370,000 complaints of identity theft reported that the information was misused for medical purposes, according to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In Virginia, 57 out of 6,616 complaints reported such activity, with…

A contract psychologist for the Washington Department of Social and Health Services had his laptop stolen, the state disclosed today. Sunil Kakar, PsyD‘s laptop was  recovered from a pawn shop on February 14,  ten days after it was discovered it had been stolen, but according to the state, there is no way to be sure whether the…

Todd Maisel, Kerry Burke, and Joe Kemp report: Stacks of paperwork containing personal information — including Social Security numbers — of patients were carelessly dumped on the sidewalk when a Brooklyn medical supply store was shuttered. The landlord said he was unaware of the papers’ sensitivity when he tossed the files outside Landmark Medical Supplies…

Bob Gardinier reports: The number of Samaritan Hospital private medical records illegally accessed by Rensselaer County Jail personnel has more than doubled and the period of the probe widened from three to five years, hospital officials say. Read more on  Albany Times Union.

Kevin Ma reports: An emergency room doctor from St. Albert has been suspended for at least a month because she illegally tapped into restricted medical files. The College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta announced this week that it had found Deanne “Dee” Gayle Watrich, an emergency room doctor and a St. Albert resident, to…