Fox31 in Georgia reports: In a press release issued by Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, they are alerting the public that patient information could be compromised. The release states that on April 9th, Phoebe Putney learned from law enforcement that a now former employee improperly accessed patient information with the intent to process fraudulent tax returns….
Category: Health Data
GE Healthcare Admits Sending NHS Patient Data To US
This report by Steve McCaskill first appeared in April, but I just came across it now: Personal details of 600,000 patients were sent to the US following a mistake made by the NHS’s IT provider, GE Healthcare. GE Healthcare admitted to TechWeekEurope that the error had occurred after it had obtained more patient data than…
South Shore Hospital to Pay $750,000 to Settle Data Breach Allegations
It started with an announcement in July 2010 that computer backup tapes with data on 800,000 were missing. It proceeded to confusion as to what business associates or vendors were involved and the sequence of events. But things started getting really ugly over a dispute between South Shore Hospital and the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office,…
CA: Hundreds of patient files stolen from local lab
More than 700 patient files were stolen from a local laboratory. The crime was discovered Monday, after someone broke into the office of Physicians Automated Laboratory on 17th Street in downtown Bakersfield over the weekend. According to PAL, 745 patients had their information stolen: including names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and lab work. Read…
CT: Waterford woman charged in privacy case
This news story by Judy Benson was published a few weeks ago, but I wanted to mention it here because we’ve seen this type of access problem before: …. In the Swanson case, records for Ruggiero-Swanson, her husband Brian and her 27-year-old son, also named Brian, were accessed by Brian Sr.’s estranged sister, according to documents…
MA: Laptop lost with data for more than 2,000 patients, Boston Children’s reports
Chelsea Conaboy reports: While at a conference in Buenos Aires, a Boston Children’s Hospital employee lost a laptop containing a file with information about 2,159 patients, including names, birth dates, diagnoses, and treatment information. The laptop was password protected but not encrypted, according to a hospital press release. Read more on The Boston Globe. So…