An intriguing entry on HHS’s breach tool this week sent me off digging to see what I could find: PBH,NC,,”50,000″,11/15/2011,Unauthorized Access/Disclosure,”Network Server, Email”,2/24/2012, It turns out that first there was this breach notice posted on November 16, 2011: PBH wishes to inform our consumers that on or about November 15, 2011, the AC LME was denied…
Category: Health Data
Hospital reality show breaks patient confidentiality, say experts
From the what-were-they-thinking dept.: The VU university’s teaching hospital has been accused of breaking patient confidentiality by allowing a television production company to record patients being treated at its accident and emergency department. Medical law professor Johan Legemaate and medical ethics expert Erwin Kompanje told television show Nieuwsuur on Wednesday night the hospital had broken…
LA: Ochsner reports hard drive, patient records missing
Ochsner is reporting yet another breach involving patient data: Staff at Ochsner Medical Center say an external hard drive containing patients’ personal and medical information is missing from the West Bank campus. The hard drive is designed to work with a bone density machine at the campus, and it was discovered missing Sunday. “After an…
NYC: Confidential patient records found in the open
Sandra E. García reports: As some members of the ARC XVI Fort Washington Heights Senior Center made their way to the center this past Thurs., Feb. 9th for breakfast, they walked past a patch of sidewalk covered in white. But the previous night’s snowfall was not the culprit. Instead, confidential patient records from the Doshi…
CA: St. Joseph Health notifies almost 32,000 patients that records were exposed in search engines for one year (updated)
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…
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…