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
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…
CORRECTED: Missing Riverside County Regional Medical Center laptop may have held data on 7,900 patients (updated)
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…
U.S. proposes effort to analyze DNA from 1 million people
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,…
Privacy breach of patient records in Prince Albert health region
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…
UK: ICO reports on community healthcare providers’ data protection
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has today published a report looking at how community healthcare providers approach data protection. Community providers are an increasingly important part of the NHS, providing cradle to grave services worth over £11 billion a year. But they often involve staff working at remote locations or off-site entirely. This brings particular…