Katie Davies reports: A nurse who was caught snooping on medical records before talking about it on social media has been sacked. Joyce Jennings worked as a registered nurse at the Newcastle NHS Foundation Trust, when she accessed records she wasn’t privy to. Jennings, who brought her 30 years’ experience into disrepute, was suspended to…
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TN: Boston Baskin Cancer Foundation patients and employees notified of stolen hard drive
Molly Smith reports: Patients at the Boston Baskin Cancer Foundation learned some of their personal information was stolen, and tell WREG one year of identity protection doesn’t seem like enough. […] Patients got a letter in the mail, saying a robber broke into a clinic employee’s home back in December and stole a hard drive…
Physician guidelines for Googling patients need revision
Jennifer Abbasi writes on Penn State News: With the Internet and social media becoming woven into the modern medical practice, Penn State College of Medicine researchers contend that professional medical societies must update or amend their Internet guidelines to address when it is ethical to “Google” a patient. “As time goes on, Googling patients is going to…
Senior Health Partners Provides Notice of Data Security Incident
Senior Health Partners (SHP), a Healthfirst Company, Provides Notice of Data Security Incident NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Senior Health Partners (SHP), a Healthfirst company, is today notifying approximately 2,700 of its members that a laptop and smartphone belonging to an assessment nurse employed by Premier Home Health (“Premier”), a business associate, were stolen from the…
UK: ICO given new powers to audit NHS
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: “Data breaches by the NHS are a major cause for concern – this will give us a chance to act before a breach happens” The Information Commissioner has welcomed a change in the law that will give his office the right to force NHS authorities to be audited for compliance…
Fire at a Brooklyn Warehouse Puts Private Lives on Display
Vivian Yee reports: No lives were lost in the huge fire that gutted a storage building on the Williamsburg waterfront over the weekend. But the flames put plenty of lives on display as the crumpling warehouse belched up its contents: decades’ worth of charred medical records, court transcripts, lawyers’ letters, sonograms, bank checks and more….