Add Boulder Community Hospital to the Colorado hospitals whose patients had their information acquired and misused by a contract nurse. Jeffrey Wolf reports: The 9Wants to Know investigators have learned Cannon Tubb is also accused of rifling through patient records at Boulder Community Hospital. Tubb is awaiting extradition from Texas to face a 90-count felony…
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Ca: LHSC probes confidentiality breach
Jonathan Sher reports: Confidential patient records with names, health card numbers and handwritten notes about treatments have been found exposed on the grounds around London’s Victoria Hospital, The Free Press has learned. The records were found in an area near the northwest corner of the grounds frequented by delivery trucks. According to a good Samaritan…
Boulder Community Hospital involved in nurse ID theft case
Add Boulder Community Hospital to the Colorado hospitals whose patients had their information acquired and misused by a contract nurse. Jeffrey Wolf reports: The 9Wants to Know investigators have learned Cannon Tubb is also accused of rifling through patient records at Boulder Community Hospital. Tubb is awaiting extradition from Texas to face a 90-count felony…
(update) Platte Valley Medical Center statement about alleged identity theft
June 16, 2011 (Brighton, CO) ?? Platte Valley Medical Center (PVMC) is undertaking an internal investigation into alleged identity theft by a former contract agency nurse who was engaged by PVMC from May 2010 to January 13, 2011. He was terminated by the hospital on that date for cause. That cause is unrelated to the…
Spartanburg hospital, police keeping quiet on details of stolen laptop investigation
Stephen Largen provides an update on a breach mentioned previously on this blog: Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System and the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office are keeping many of the details of an ongoing investigation into a stolen laptop computer secret from the public. The laptop was reported stolen from an SRHS employee’s vehicle in late March…
Missing: Laptop with 8.6million medical records
Mike Sullivan reports on a huge data breach in the UK: A laptop holding the medical records of eight MILLION patients has gone missing. The computer vanished from an NHS building in the biggest-ever security breach of its kind. It went missing three weeks ago but has only just been reported to police. The unencrypted…