ICAEW [ Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales] members in practice have been among thousands of agents who have received late-filing penalty notices which are not for their clients. HMRC has investigated and provided an update on what went wrong. […] The total number of individual penalty notices sent to the wrong agent…
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Il: Private patient cases of deceased psychologist found on the street
Hadar Gil-Ad reports: Hundreds of files that included personal information were thrown out from a local center for psychology and treatment of learning disabilities in Ramat Gan that was shut down after the pyschologist passed away a year and a half ago The documents of a deceased psychologist, containing private assessments and personal information on…
Florissant dialysis center faces class-action lawsuit after I-Team investigates
PJ Randhawa reports: A popular Florissant dialysis clinic is the subject of a class-action lawsuit after an I-Team report uncovered the facility “lost” the medical records of up to 60 patients. In July, the I-Team found dozens of private medical records for DaVita Dialysis patients dumped behind an abandoned building in north St. Louis. We…
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is contacting 58 people after a data breach
ChrisD reports: The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is contacting 58 people after a data breach. The WRHA says a home care employee had a bag stolen from her vehicle containing employees’ daily schedule of activities, including personal health information for her clients on March 26. The forms that were in the bag may have contained…
Follow-up: Adventist Health Physician’s Network fined $40,000 for 2018 breach incident
Jeremy Childs reports: Adventist Health Physician’s Network, a hospital in Simi Valley, was fined $40,000 as part of a civil privacy settlement this week, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office. The settlement stems from an incident in October 2018 when private medical files were found inside a storage unit in Simi Valley. The…
NZ: West Coast health board in privacy blunder involving medical information
Joanne Naish reports: The West Coast District Health Board (DHB) has been accused of breaching patients’ privacy after giving private medical information to the wrong person. It is the second time the DHB has come under fire after documents containing information about hundreds of patients were found blowing around a Christchurch street in 2019. Read more…