Hilary Bird reports: Almost a year after boxes of personal medical records were found at the Fort Simpson dump, the Northwest Territories Information and Privacy Commissioner hasn’t had time to investigate the breach. A spokesperson for Elaine Keenan-Bengts’ office says that because of a backlog, the commissioner won’t be able to look into the incident…
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Undetermined number of patient medical records lost in Bahamas
Every so often, we see an incident that is due to forces of nature or some environmental event. Here’s one from the Great Bahamas: There was a significant number of patient medical records lost at the Rand Memorial Hospital, during the passage of Hurricane Dorian, Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) Managing Director Catherine Weech said yesterday….
Smith’s Food & Drugs: Worker fired after improperly disposing of prescription records
AP reports that Smith’s Food & Drug, a division of Kroger, has terminated an employee who improperly disposed of thousands of old prescription records from a Nevada Store. The firm said it discovered on August 29 that the employee had discarded nearly 58,000 prescriptions in July. The incident reported above does not appear to be…
SC: Prisma Health discloses third patient data breach in two months
Noah Feit reports: Patients and volunteers at several Midlands hospitals might have had their personal information exposed online, according to Prisma Health. The problem was discovered after a Prisma Health employee’s login credentials were compromised, said Tammie Epps, a spokeswoman for the largest hospital system in South Carolina. Read more on The State. I had…
Kroger reports ‘isolated incident’ involving pharmacy records
Jason Braverman reports: Kroger announced today that a box of pharmacy records was lost. They said in late July, a records management service, Retrievex, Inc., the company’s business associate, shipped a box of pharmacy records to the Woodstock Kroger via a third-party common carrier. Retrievex confirmed with the carrier that the box was lost in…
Ca: Dozens of patient records stolen from Winnipeg’s Children’s Hospital
CBC reports: The personal health information of 54 minors was stolen this week from a locked cabinet at the Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg, the province’s Shared Health agency said in a Friday news release. The stolen records relate to two days’ worth of scheduled surgical procedures for youths from Manitoba, Ontario and Nunavut. Read more on…