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…
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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…
UK: ‘I feel violated’ – Hospital sends personal details of 11 patients to wrong address
David Hannant reports: A disabled mother-of-two says she feels violated after personal details about her sent by her hospital were delivered to the wrong address. Cireena Read, of Northrepps, was distraught when she opened a letter from the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital informing her of the error, which saw personal and medical details about…
Waitematā DHB sent private mental health notes to wrong patient, inquiry launched
Hannah Martin reports: A mother who requested her son’s medical records claims she was also sent “fully identifiable” mental health notes about another patient. The Auckland woman, who Stuff has chosen not to name for privacy reasons, said Waitematā District Health Board’s error was a “completely unacceptable” breach of patient privacy. Read more on Stuff.
Ca: ‘It just makes me sick’: Shuswap patient receives someone else’s medical records
I really do not know why people are stunned any more. There have been so many reports over the years of these mismailings or giving patients other patients’ records. Why is it still a shock? Jules Knox reports: A Shuswap woman was stunned when her husband received an envelope from Interior Health with somebody else’s medical records…
Advocate Christ Medical Center demonstrates how NOT to respond to a HIPAA breach
Ok, we know mis-mailings and mix-ups happen, right. But what allegedly happened with Advocate Christ Medical Center is yet another example of how NOT to respond to an incident while claiming you take privacy and security seriously. CBS in Chicago reports that Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn Illinois sent Darnell Payne some other…