Robert McMillan reports: New York’s Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center is notifying patients that their personal information may have been compromised after seven CDs full of unencrypted data were FedExed by a hospital contractor and then lost in transit. The CDs were sent by the hospital’s billing processor, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, around March…
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ACLU sues state over police raid on Ketchikan clinic
Jason Lamb reports: The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska says there’s no excuse for the state to violate medical-records privacy laws. The group filed a lawsuit against the state Monday, claiming it ordered a recent police raid of the A Woman’s Place clinic in Ketchikan. The lawsuit says police confiscated about 400 medical records…
UK: Doctors in database boycott threat
Doctors are threatening to boycott the NHS’s electronic patient database amid fears of security breaches. Plans to upload all personal medical records on to a centrally-stored network have been met by controversy since they were announced by the last Government. Now GPs in the North East are fighting the proposals by saying they will not…
Lawsuit filed over Our Lady of Peace breach
Erick Flack of WAVE reports that a lawsuit has been filed over the Our Lady of Peace breach. “The lawsuit accuses the hospital of negligence, invasion of privacy and emotional distress and asks for punitive damages.” Even though the breached information did not include Social Security Numbers, diagnosis, or treatment information, this is one of…
Impulse Monitoring denies responsibility for NVMS breach
As an update on a breach reported earlier this month (here), Pamela Lewis Dolan of amednews.com reports: Meanwhile, Impulse Monitoring, a Columbia, Md., company that provides onsite and Web-based monitoring of neurological systems for patients undergoing spinal and brain-related injuries, is denying any responsibility in a case involving the June 6 dumping of several boxes…
X-ray tech accused of voyeurism was storing Willard Mercy medical records
Cary Ashby reports: A Willard rental unit company found various Mercy Willard Hospital records being stored by a former ultrasound technician accused of voyeurism and child pornography at a Tiffin facility. However, Mercy CEO and President Lynn Detterman said there was nothing considered suspicious, pornographic or of a criminal nature in the storage unit once…