Josh Bavas reports: Queensland Health is investigating how a large parcel of patients’ medical documents, earmarked for destruction, were lost on a busy Brisbane road. A staff member came across the files last Thursday on Abbotsford Road in Bowen Hills, kilometres away from their home at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH). hey had…
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Insurance company AIA fined $10,000 by PDPC for personal data breach
Lester Wong reports from Singapore: Insurance company AIA was fined $10,000 by the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) for mistakenly sending 245 letters meant for various customers to just two people due to a programming error in its software system that auto-generates the letters. The bulk of the letters (237) were premium notice letters for…
Now THIS is painful: PainMD tells bankruptcy court it lost access to its own patients’ records
OK, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a breach report quite like this one, so grab your favorite beverage and read what Brett Kelman reports on a company that ran into trouble with regulators and then filed for bankruptcy…. and in the process, managed to lose access to all their patients’ stored records because the…
Medical Records Left Behind From Shuttered Chatham Medical Facility After It Lost State Health Department License And Medicare Certification
Dana Kozlov reports on tremendous amount of paper medical records left behind behind the now-shuttered former Medical Professional Home Healthcare Center in Chatham. Read more on CBS and their follow-up here. So okay, folks, you really need to at least look at the pictures in those stories. It’s *disgusting* what has happened to patients’ records….
Two lists with names and details of 33 patients from Letterkenny General Hospital found after being dumped
The Irish Sun reports: Two lists containing the names and details of 33 patients from a Donegal hospital were found dumped in Letterkenny in recent weeks. The latest serious breach in patient confidentiality at Letterkenny General Hospital has been confirmed by Saolta, the company which governs the hospital. Read more on Irish Sun.
TX: HHS joins medical records dump investigation
Jacob Rascon reports: With the help of Tomball Police, the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights is investigating the illegal dumping of thousands of medical records. The more than 20 boxes of records belonged to former Today’s Vision patients and employees, including their Social Security numbers. Read more on…