The release of confidential patient details to a state medical institution in the course of her negotiations with a hospital over a lawsuit was an unjustified interference with her right to respect for private life under Article 8. Read more on UK Human Rights Blog. The case is L.H. v Latvia [2014] ECHR 453 (29 April 2014) – read judgment.
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DeKalb Health reports patient information breach after compromise of vendor's server
KPC News reports: DeKalb Health hospital Wednesday announced it has learned of a hacking incident involving the DeKalb Health website that resulted in inappropriate access to certain information about some DeKalb Health patients. DeKalb Health uses a third party firm to operate its website, and a computer server operated by that third party was the…
Tax Fraud Gang Targeted Healthcare Firms
Brian Krebs reports: Earlier this month, I wrote about an organized cybercrime gang that has been hacking into HR departments at organizations across the country and filing fraudulent tax refund requests with the IRS on employees of those victim firms. Today, we’ll look a bit closer at the activities of this crime gang, which appears to have targeted a…
CO: Mercy Regional Medical Center patient records breached
Chase Olivarius-McAlister reports: Centura Health – the nonprofit umbrella that owns Mercy Regional Medical Center – has sent letters to about 1,000 people in Durango warning that hackers may have gained access to their personal information. The potentially compromised information includes patients’ name, Social Security number, Medicare beneficiary number, address, date of birth and phone…
Boston Medical Center fires vendor after data breach
Robert Weisman reports: Boston Medical Center said it has fired a transcription service after a health care provider reported that the medical records of about 15,000 patients at the hospital were posted without password protection on the vendor’s website used by physicians. The records contained the names, addresses, and medical information about the patients, including the…
PA: Patients' medical billing records missing for 2 years (updated)
WFMZ reports: Reading Health System has put hundreds of patients on notice about the disappearance of their medical billing records. In a letter sent Tuesday to patients of the former Western Berks Internal Medicine, the health system’s chief compliance officer, Kathleen Wetzel, said that three boxes of medical billing records, from Jan. 2, 2009 through…