From the Information Commissioner’s Office: An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed by Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust. This follows an investigation whereby the local press were handed a patient handover sheet containing details of 18 patients. The sensitive personal data was found on a table in a…
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Hospital fires employee who provided patient's syphilis records to ex-boyfriend
Over the weekend, more details emerged about the breach at U. of Cincinnati Medical Center that resulted in a patient’s syphilis diagnosis being posted to Facebook. The new details do not totally agree with claims in the woman’s lawsuit. Robert Scalese reports: According to the hospital, it was a financial services employee who accessed the…
Details emerge on Access Health CT breach
There’s an interesting update to the Access Health CT breach. AP is reporting that the owner of the backpack found with enrollee information has been identified, works for a call center vendor, and has been placed on administrative leave. The employee of Maximus – the call center vendor – came forward when he read the…
Walgreens notifies patients after employee stole info and gave it to third party
Walgreens is notifying some patients that their names, dates of birth, and Social Security Number (in the form of Medicare ID number) was apparently stolen by an employee at the Piedmont Avenue location in Atlanta, Georgia. The employee reportedly provided the information to a third party. The theft occurred between March 3 and April 14,…
CA: Accelerated Urgent Care doctor claims contractor took medical records from room
A doctor for Accelerated Urgent Care said that a contractor painting a room full of medical records removed the files and threw them away in a dumpster. The City of Bakersfield has removed the dumpster that contained hundreds of medical records from the parking lot of Bakersfield College. 23ABC found the medical records dumped inside a…
New Colorado law seeks to protect patient record privacy
Andis Robeznieks reports: Discussions over taxing cosmetic medical procedures such as Botox injections led to a new law in Colorado that limits the state Department of Revenue’s ability to audit personal medical information, and has set in motion a process to further strengthen medical privacy safeguards. Rep. Dianne Primavera, a cancer survivor and Democratic chairwoman of the state House…