Lee Kyung-min reports: Hospitals continue to collect resident registration numbers from their patients, defying a newly enacted law that bans private entities from gathering personal information. However, they say that they have no choice but to continue to collect the identification numbers from patients since they have no alternatives to distinguish their customers. They insist…
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AU: Psychiatric patients' records being aired in court
Harriet Alexander reports: Psychiatrists are handing their patients’ confidential records to the courts amid threats of jail, under a flourishing practice by solicitors of issuing “dirt digging” subpoenas. Some patients have been powerless to prevent details about their past sexual abuse or childhood trauma being aired in court, even in matters where they are not…
Jersey City Medical Center notifies patients after CD with unencrypted PHI lost by UPS
The Jersey City Medical Center is notifying patients whose unencrypted protected health information was on a CD lost by United Parcel Service in June. The CD contained data the center was required to provide to Medicaid, and included patients’ names, social security numbers, and for some patients, date of birth, medical record number, gender, and information…
Western Regional Center For Brain And Spine Surgery employee stole patient information for fraudulent activities
A recent update to HHS’s public breach tool shows that Western Regional Center For Brain And Spine Surgery reported a breach affecting 12,000 patients. The breach began on November 28, 2011 until June 29, 2012 and involved “theft, network server.” A letter sent to patients, dated July 9, 2014, explains that on or about May…
Ca: 1,628 patients at Kamloops hospital had privacy breached
Dale Bass reports: Royal Inland Hospital has advised 1,628 patients their privacy has been violated. Nancy Serwo, acting administrator at the hospital, said two boxes of records were returned to the hospital on June 16 after they were discovered in a filing cabinet the hospital had donated elsewhere last year. The best estimate of when…
California insurance giants creating massive database of patient records
Tim Logan and Stuart Pfeifer report: Two of California’s largest health insurers are partnering to create a massive database of patient medical records. With just a few strokes of a keyboard, doctors and nurses will be able to access the medical histories of about one in four California residents. Supporters say the effort by Anthem…