Dan Verel reports: St. Joseph Health System has alerted more than 10,000 patients in Santa Rosa, Petaluma and Napa that their personal health information records may have been searchable on the Internet. Notices of the possible security breach were sent on Monday to 6,235 patients from Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, two from Petaluma Valley Hospital…
Category: Health Data
UK: Nosey nurse struck off after accessing medical records
A nurse has been struck off after she admitted snooping on the confidential medical records of her own friends, family and a colleague. Jennifer Susan Ramsay, 37, admitted she was no longer fit to practice after the data protection breach was uncovered by suspicious colleagues. The nurse, who worked at the MacMillan Day Care unit…
Ca: Statement on privacy breach at Capital Health
Statement from Capital Health: This week Capital Health is contacting 105 people whose personal health information was inappropriately accessed by a former employee. Everyone who is affected will hear directly from Capital Health and we will be available to discuss the details of these breaches of confidentiality with them. Capital Health identified these breaches during…
De: Drug data firm 'sold raw info' to big pharma
A German company which studies drug prescription habits for the pharma industry is accused of selling raw data to drug companies, in what magazine Der Spiegel said on Monday could be a huge data protection scandal. A former member of staff at the data processing firm Pharmafakt GFD told the magazine under oath that data…
UK: Health trust ‘loses’ children’s records
Sensitive information about young children has been lost, prompting a “serious incident investigation” by health officials. Parents of pupils at the city’s Paston Ridings Primary School have been horrified to discover that Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust has lost the personal information of 47 children in the reception class. The trust runs the school…
WI: Computer stolen from western Wis. medical center
This is one of those breach reports that stumps me every time. Keith Edwards reports for WQOW: Hundreds of western Wisconsin patients are warned their medical and personal information may have been compromised. The Lakeview Medical Center in Rice Lake says a laptop computer was stolen from a car belonging to one of its nurses….