Category: Health Data

I had missed this case every time it appeared in the media, it seems, but the Times Argus reported on November 10 that a former employee at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center was sentenced for snooping into the records of her husband’s ex-wife on numerous occasions: After an emotional hearing, a judge sentenced a woman who…

The New Haven Register reports: A bag stolen from a car in September contained data from a local dentist office, but the business said Monday that patients’ privacy has not been compromised. The bag contained personal items and back-up media cartridges from Soundental Associates P.C. that were being taken to an off-site storage location. It…

NewsTalkRadioWHIO reports: A chiropractic office was broken into early Monday morning and reportedly had a safe and computer stolen. The break in occurred at about 1:30 a.m. at Long Chiropractic, located at 4978 Northcutt Pl., according to a Dayton Police incident report. Thieves broke out a window on the south side of the building and…

Gavin Lesnick reports:  UAMS is notifying about 1,500 patients that a former resident doctor who was fired in 2010 improperly kept medical records containing some personal information. The hospital said in a statement that the doctor violated policy when she kept documents containing information including patient names, partial addresses, medical record numbers, dates of birth,…

In June, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust were hit with a £325,000 monetary penalty for a data protection breach.  Rebecca Todd reports that they ultimately paid  £260,000, a 20% “savings” for prompt payment that is offered to those being fined.

Through the law firm of Baker & Hostetler,  CHRISTUS St. John Hospital notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach involving unencrypted patient information on a lost memory stick. The Houston-based hospital learned of the September 25th incident on September 27th, but a search was unsuccessful in recovering the drive, which contained  the…