From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A Welsh health board has become the first NHS organisation to be served a monetary penalty following a serious breach of the Data Protection Act, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The Aneurin Bevan Health Board (ABHB) has been issued with a penalty of £70,000 after a sensitive report…
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Senator Franken questions Accretive about allegations raised by Minnesota's Attorney General
As mentioned in a previous blog post, Senator Al Franken of Minnesota sent a letter to Accretive Health concerning the allegations in a report by the state’s Attorney General Lori Swanson. Sen. Franken has reason to be concerned. Not only is Minnesota his home state, but he is the Chairman of the Senate Privacy, Technology,…
July theft of computer with Fairview patient data wasn't the first, Minnesota AG says
If you were to search DataLossDB.org to find out what we knew about data breaches involving Accretive Health, you would have found one incident from last year. But that may be the tip of the iceberg. Christopher Snowbeck of Pioneer Press reports that there were others: When a laptop computer was stolen last summer from…
Oregon State Hospital + employee's car + unattended files = when the heck will people learn?!
The Oregon State Hospital today notified patients that printed documents containing protected patient information were among items stolen from an Oregon State Hospital supervisor’s car on Friday, April 13th. There were three sets of documents taken, two of which included protected patient information: 1. A printed list of the names, hospital identification numbers, treating physicians…
University of Houston College of Optometry Clinic Posts Breach Alert
Alert posted on University of Houston College of Optometry‘s web site: La Nueva Casa de Amigos Eye Clinic, a neighborhood clinic of the University of Houston College of Optometry, has notified about 7,000 individuals of a potential data exposure involving a computer containing clinic patient records. The university is not aware of any wrongful use…
Texas Air Force Base investigating how patient records wound up in former service member's home (updated)
Stacy Johnson reports: Sheppard Air Force Base’s 82nd Medical Group is looking into a possible breach of patient privacy after a man brought in several medical records dating from 2003 to 2007 that he found in his estranged wife’s closet on April 17. James Haynes, who lives in Boyd, said he and his wife are…