A story in The Argus suggests that the Information Commissioner’s Office is set to slam an NHS trust with a huge fine over a data breach: Confidential information belonging to tens of thousands of patients and staff were at risk of being exposed after computer hard drives were stolen and put up for sale on…
Category: Health Data
Ca: Health worker loses job after prying into patient files
Gordon Delaney reports: A Capital Health employee has lost her job after prying into confidential patient medical files and later telling one of those patients she couldn’t trust herself not to do it again. The patient, Mary Schinold, wants answers about the breach of privacy involving health records at Hants Community Hospital in Windsor. Schinold…
Prime Healthcare defends its disclosure of patient records – are they begging for a federal and state prosecution or what?
There’s a follow-up to a situation I blogged about earlier this week where a patients’ records were revealed to media by executives of Shasta Regional Medical Center without explicit patient consent. Michael Hiltzik provides an update to his previous coverage: Prime Healthcare has responded, with a letter and a public statement, to my January 4 column about the…
Server hacked at OSU Medical Center
Encarnacion Pyle reports: Ohio State University Medical Center has notified 30 patients and 150 students that a hacker might have accessed their names, medical information and/or Social Security numbers. Officials said there is no indication that any personal information was taken or that the incident has resulted in identity theft, but they are providing 12…
Sg: Doctor fined, censured for spying at patients' records
I thought some readers might be interested in how privacy violations are handled in Singapore. From Channel News Asia: A doctor has been fined S$10,000 and censured for accessing the medical records of two patients who were not under his charge. 32-year old Dr Tre’gon Singh Randhawa has also given the Singapore Medical Council a…
Contractor hit with second class action suit over TRICARE data theft
Bob Brewin reports: TRICARE contractor Science Applications International Corp. was hit with a second class action lawsuit filed in a California state court seeking unspecified monetary damages related to the theft of computer tapes containing the records of 4.9 million health care beneficiaries. The latest suit seeks certification as a class action for all TRICARE beneficiaries in…