Stephen Betts reports: Patient records were dumped unshredded into a Dumpster last month at the Maine VA Medical Center but a spokesman said the documents never left the campus grounds and that no personal identifying information was disclosed. A bag containing a number of documents from the prosthetics section of the medical center was discovered…
Category: Health Data
Ca: First report issued on breach of new health info act
CBC News reports: Newfoundland and Labrador’s privacy commissioner says a registered massage therapist breached the Personal Health Information Act by failing to properly safeguard a patient’s file. Commissioner Ed Ring says the therapist lost a file containing the personal health information of the complainant, a patient. The commissioner recommended that the massage therapist, and other…
Security breach: Twice victimized
Eleanor Sundwall has a well-written commentary about the Utah Dept. of Health breach that I hope people read as she articulates how entities respond to a breach may leave the victims of a breach feeling even more victimized. You can read her commentary on the Salt Lake Tribune. Eleanor’s story raises another issue, however. She…
Suit hits Pentagon over huge 2011 data breach
Bryan Bender has a piece in The Boston Globe about the TRICARE/SAIC breach last December. The story doesn’t shed any new light on the breach, and I am still waiting for Rep. Ed Markey to release the response he got from TRICARE to a letter he had sent them (his staff assures me he will…
Prime hospital cited for patient confidentiality violation
Lance Williams reports on a case previously covered on this blog: A Prime Healthcare Services hospital in Redding broke state law when it publicized a patient’s confidential medical files in an effort to discredit a California Watch news report, state regulators say. The state Department of Public Health on Tuesday issued five “deficiencies” against Shasta…
Seven PRHC jobs lost over privacy breaches
Elizabeth Bower reports: Seven people have lost their jobs at the Peterborough hospital since the start of the year for accessing patient records when they were not entitled to do so, an official says. Jane Parr, Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC) vice president and chief human resources officer, says 280 patients have had their privacy…