Tim O’Coin reports: Women & Infants Hospital says tapes of ultrasound images and patients’ personal information are missing. According to a post on its website, the hospital discovered back in September that backup ultrasound tapes at Ambulatory Sites in Providence and New Bedford had disappeared. The hospital said the tapes also contained patients’ names, dates…
Category: Health Data
UK: Solent NHS Trust patient data left at market stall
Katie Grant reports: Patients’ confidential information has been left at a market stall and on top of a parking meter in a series of data breaches by Solent NHS Trust. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request by the BBC revealed the trust had breached data protection 93 times in the past two years. Michael Parr,…
Illinois nursing home residents' data stolen
Associated Press reports: The personal information of 508 Illinois nursing home residents was inside a stolen briefcase, prompting the state agency overseeing Medicaid to notify the people affected by the breach. The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services announced the incident Friday. A statement from the department says the briefcase was stolen Aug. 31…
UK: NHS lost 1.8 million patient records in a year
Official statistics showed that at least 1.8 million sensitive papers went missing throughout the health service in just 12 months. Among the breaches included data security records dumped in public bins and electronic records found for sale on an internet auction site. Other security lapses involved details of terminally ill patients being faxed to the…
Kaiser Permanente notifies employees after e-mail error exposes their SSN to unauthorized individual
On October 29, Kaiser Permanente began notifying employees of a breach that occurred August 24th when their names, Social Security numbers, and other information were mistakenly e-mailed to an individual not authorized to receive such information. From their letter: [First Name] [Last Name] [Street Address] [City], [State], [ZIP code] Dear [First Name], We are writing…
WA: Prescription drug tracking system illegally accessed (updated)
From the this-can’t-be-good dept.: This week Washington’s Prescription Monitoring Program sent letters to 34 people whose records were illegally accessed by someone who used a physician’s identity. The doctor’s personal and professional information was used to set up a fraudulent account in the statewide system. […] State health officials immediately deactivated the account when they…