Remember how the new report from the ICO indicated that healthcare had the most reported breaches, and the majority of those involved paper records? Here’s another example of how UK healthcare needs to get better protection of paper records: The Express & Star reports: A woman in Walsall has had her personal medical file stolen…
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Indictments in patient data theft from Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology Nutrition of Florida (UPDATED)
As seen in the Tampa Star: Three men have been indicted for stealing the personal patient information of more than 13,000 people from a Tampa medical practice and using it to create fraudulent credit cards and steal tax refunds. The conspiracy to steal the personal patient information of thousands of clients at the Tampa office…
NE: Personal and medical information discarded after pharmacy closes business
Max Massey of KOLN reports that the former owner of Four Star Drug in Lincoln said he had shredded, or transferred all of the important documents once his store went out of business. Sometimes a picture does speak 1,000 words. Look at this stack of papers with social security numbers, medical history, prescriptions, and even papers labeled confidential….
MO: Medical records for 238 Children’s Mercy Hospital patients stolen
KTTN reports that the medical records for 238 patients at Children’s Mercy Hospital were stolen from an employee’s locked vehicle on August 4. From their report, it sounds like the employee routinely needed to take records from facility to facility. They did not explain why those records could not have remained on a server that the employee…
Harbin Clinic notifies patients that records stored at Iron Mountain are lost, missing, or destroyed
Seen on their web site: On August 2, 2016, Harbin Clinic was notified by document storage facility Iron Mountain, Inc., that several boxes of medical records are unaccounted for and/or are missing or destroyed from their Atlanta facility. Harbin Clinic engaged the data safety warehouse to maintain the privacy of our patients’ records, as Iron Mountain…
County-USC patients’ personal information stolen in car break-in
Abby Sewell reports: Files containing personal information on more than 700 patients treated at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center were stolen when an employee’s car was broken into, county health officials said Monday. The break-in occurred in July. The county Department of Health Services released a statement after trying to notify the affected patients by mail. The…