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Fire at a Brooklyn Warehouse Puts Private Lives on Display

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Dissent

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….

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UMass Memorial Medical Group reports data breach (updated)

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Dissent

Samantha Allen reports: UMass Memorial Medical Group said Friday it is working with law enforcement after a former employee allegedly accessed billing records that contained credit card and debit card information, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and medical record numbers. The medical group, part of UMass Memorial Health Care, said it was given permission…

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Ca: Jewish General investigates privacy breach

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Dissent

Trudie Mason reports: The Jewish General Hospital says it is taking very seriously a breach of patient confidentiality. Hospital documents blew out of the back of a truck on Highway 15 near Mirabel yesterday. One sheet of paper lodged on the windshield of a Laval woman who later retrieved it and was shocked to read…

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CORRECTED: Missing Riverside County Regional Medical Center laptop may have held data on 7,900 patients (updated)

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Dissent

Correction: This article originally reported that Riverside did not return the phone call from PHIprivacy.net asking them to clarify whether this was a second breach or an update of the first breach report.. Riverside did attempt to return the call that day, but was unable to get through as the line was tied up. PHIprivacy.net…

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U.S. proposes effort to analyze DNA from 1 million people

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Dissent

Toni Clarke and Sharon Begley report: The United States has proposed analyzing genetic information from more than 1 million American volunteers as part of a new initiative to understand human disease and develop medicines targeted to an individual’s genetic make-up. At the heart of the “precision medicine” initiative, announced on Friday by President Barack Obama,…

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Privacy breach of patient records in Prince Albert health region

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Dissent

David Giles reports: A privacy breach of patient records is being investigated in Prince Albert, Sask. Officials with the Prince Albert Parkland Health Region (PAPHR) say an employee accessed the personal health information of a “small number of patients.” Those patients affected have been notified by the region about the specific details of the privacy…

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