HealthImaging reports the follow-up to a breach previously noted on this blog: Gerald Micalizzi, MD, a Connecticut radiologist formerly employed by Advanced Mobile Imaging Radiology, has been fined $20,000 after downloading patients’ personal information, according to a Valley Independent Sentinel report. From Feb. 4, 2010, to March 5, 2010, Micalizzi accessed the records of 957 patients at…
Category: Health Data
Some Delta Dental records lost during shipping
Delta Dental of Illinois has notified hundreds of people about an incident that could result in the exposure of their personal information. A box containing paper claims was shipped by a subcontractor of Delta Dental of Illinois to the company by a delivery service. The box, which contained claims and X-rays, was lost during shipping….
Belfast Trust fined £225,000 after leaving thousands of patient records in disused hospital
Another big fine from the ICO: Belfast Health and Social Care (BHSC) Trust has been served with a Civil Monetary Penalty (CMP) of £225,000 following a serious breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA), the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The breach involved the sensitive personal data of thousands of patients and staff, and included medical…
AU: No answers from Qld Health
John Corlett reports: More than one week after a major security breach, Queensland Health still does not know how a number of sensitive medical documents were left lying in the gutter. Rockhampton Hospital began an investigation into the security breach early last week after The Morning Bulletin carried a story revealing that sensitive medical documents…
Updates to Memorial Sloan-Kettering breach report
As an update to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering breach mentioned previously, Christopher Twarowski and Rashed Mian of the Long Island Press report: The personal and medical data of a still-undisclosed number of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center patients were erroneously posted on the Internet and accessible for manipulation for more than six years before being detected by the…
U. professor takes on hospital in Utah Medicaid breach
There are so many complaints and lawsuits following breaches that I long ago gave up on mentioning them all. But Kristen Stewart of the Salt Lake Tribune reports on one complaint that I found particularly interesting: When University of Utah health law professor Leslie Francis learned her name and Social Security number had been exposed in the…