Muir Orthopaedic Specialists in Walnut Creek, California, notified 1,800 patients following the July 27 theft of records. The incident, reported to HHS, was also described on the group’s web site in a notice addressed to Dr. Moorthy’s surgical patients between August 2004 and July 2011: On July 27, property of Muir Orthopaedic Specialists was stolen…
Category: Health Data
Stolen computer contained Henry Ford Health System patient information
Henry Ford Health System in Michigan notified HHS that a computer stolen in August contained protected health information on 520 patients. In an October 10, 2011 statement on their web site, they writ Required Substitute Notice: Infectious Diseases Patients’ Health Information Compromised PATIENT HOTLINE NUMBER: (866) 523-6770 Oct. 10, 2011 Henry Ford Health System is…
Hundreds of medical records found in Yokota servicemember's home
Seth Robson reports: YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Air Force officials have sent warnings to 593 people to be on the lookout for signs of identity theft after their medical records were found at a servicemember’s home on Yokota Air Base. The 374th Airlift Wing announced last week that the documents — which included the…
FL: I-Team: Tampa VA lost private medical photos of breast cancer patients
The I-Team has uncovered hundreds of thousands dollars’ worth of expensive equipment and property at VA hospitals in Tampa and Bay Pines has been lost or stolen in the last two years. The list includes televisions, lap tops computers, and microscopes. But the most serious loss was not the most expensive item. A camera, used…
Ca: Steele uncovers major medical privacy breach
How not to write a disclosure letter: The medical records of 450 people have been compromised after a laptop and a USB drive containing personal information were lost by a medical student. Carolina Becerra received a letter from Vancouver Coastal Health dated Oct. 6 stating that her hospital records from Vancouver General Hospital went missing…
UK: NHS doctors, nurses and admin staff breached patients' confidentiality 802 times in the past 12 months
Sophie Borland reports: NHS staff are exposing highly sensitive information about patients up to five times a week by posting messages about them on Facebook, discussing illnesses in public or losing their medical files. Figures show that in the past 12 months doctors, nurses and admin workers breached patients’ confidentiality some 802 times. And nearly…