Kay Lazar of The Boston Globe reports: Hundreds of medical records kept by a longtime Acton family doctor who abruptly closed his practice last year are about to be destroyed, leaving patients without crucial information and exposing a gap in state law about who owns abandoned medical records. On April 8, a Lynn storage company…
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UK: Medical records found in corridor
An investigation has been launched into why crates of medical records were left lying unattended in a corridor at a Scottish hospital. The records, which contained highly personal information, were discovered by a member of the public at the Southern General hospital in Glasgow. Read more on BBC.
Met Life fax malfunction misdirects personal info
Metropolitan Life Insurance (Met Life) has notified (pdf) the Maryland Attorney General’s Office that for about two days in January, their electronic fax server malfunctioned after they had uploaded a software patch. As a result, personal information on some customers — including names, addresses, and Social Security numbers — was misdirected to other fax numbers….
AU: Records found at tip
Peter Gardiner of The Daily reports that cardboard boxes of personal details containing identification records and financial statements of LJ Hooker Noosa real estate clients were found at Noosa’s main refuse tip. The former owner of the business insists, however, that he had had taken the necessary precautions to have the records properly recycled when…
UK: Patients’ GP notes found in car
Shaun Lowthorpe reports that medical notes about 37 terminally ill patients were found abandoned in a used car owned by Philip Smith, a GP at the Beccles Medical Centre. NHS Yarmouth and Waveney is now investigating.
NY: Box delivered to Sun office leads to investigation
Grant Parpan of the North Shore Sun reports: A cardboard box filled with records from a Holbrook social worker’s office — including Social Security and bank account numbers, addresses and phone numbers of clients — was delivered to The North Shore Sun last week by a town worker who said he found it lying on…