Lisa Schick reports: After several privacy breaches Saskatchewan’s Information and Privacy Commissioner is telling the Regina Qu’Appelle Regional Health Authority it needs to do something to stop its employees from snooping. The recommendations stem from three incidents that happened in the RQHR over the past five years. Read more about the breaches on NewsTalk 650….
Category: Health Data
IE: Doctor guilty of misconduct after patient files dumped near his home
Luke Byrne reports that Dr. Ogbonna Anoke, a physician who worked at Cavan-Monaghan Hospital between January and September 2010 as a non-consultant hospital doctor, has been found guilty by the Irish Medical Council on charges of serious professional misconduct. The charges were lodged after sensitive medical records were found dumped near his former home: He was guilty…
Three breaches, some details (updated)
And yet again, HHS’s breach tool reveals breaches for which I can find no public statements or media coverage: Lee Miller Rehab Associates,MD,,10480,1/15/2012,Theft,Network Server,2/7/2013,, American HomePatient Inc.,TN,LifeGas,1103,10/11/2012,Theft,Laptop,2/7/2013,, Riderwood Village,MD,,3230,11/18/2012,Theft,Laptop,2/8/2013,, If anyone sees/find coverage, please let me know. Two of the incidents involved stolen laptops and it appears that HHS may not have notified within the…
New York woman's intimate personal details made public in New Mexico abortion clinic probe
Associated Press reports: A woman from New York came to New Mexico to terminate her pregnancy at one of the nation’s four late-term abortion clinics after she found out the fetus she had been carrying for more than eight months had severe brain abnormalities. There were complications during the abortion and the 26-year-old woman was…
Montgomery woman sentenced to prison for stealing personal info of 800 Troy Regional Medical Center patients
As a follow-up to a breach previously covered on this blog: Angeline Austin, who stole over 800 Troy Hospital (Troy Regional Medical Center) patients’ identity information for use in a tax refund fraud scheme while employed by Southern Records Management, was sentenced to 65 months in prison. Of note, the tax refund fraud/ID theft had serious…
Wayne Memorial Hospital notified patients after CD with their unencrypted records was lost in the mail
This was reported by James Haggerty on January 23, but I just stumbled across it now: A compact disc including information on Medicare patients at Wayne Memorial Hospital disappeared recently en route to its intended recipient. An administrator at Wayne Memorial in Honesdale on Nov. 28 sent the unencrypted disc and related paperwork by certified…