Some people — who shall go nameless for now — call some of us “privacy nuts” as if it’s a bad thing. But anyone who works in the field of mental health, as I do, may be understandably seriously concerned about privacy and security issues. I received a phone call this week that’s a case…
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UK: Personal data stolen with Powys LHB laptop
More on the Trulife laptop theft from 2008 that was never reported until mid-2009: A computer containing personal information about patients who have visited Powys teaching Local Health Board’s (tLHB) orthotics department has been stolen. Remarkably this incident happened in February 2008 but the third party in charge of the laptop only informed Powys tLHB…
Navy laptop with personal info missing
Liz Nelson reports: Naval Hospital Pensacola will be notifying thousands of beneficiaries who use its pharmacy services, following the disappearance of a laptop computer August 18 which contains personally identifiable information. The computer’s database contains a registry of 38,000 pharmacy service customers’ names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth on all patients that used…
Privacy Commissioner Cavoukian and seven health organizations team up to eliminate confusion over key element of health privacy law
Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, today released a new publication that includes specific practical examples to help clarify any confusion over when health information custodians can assume a patient’s implied consent to collect, use or disclose personal health information. The brochure, Circle of Care: Sharing Personal Health Information for Health-Care Purposes, was…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Michael E. Rohrer has been charged with grand theft and identity fraud for allegedly stealing the credit card numbers of at least three people while working at Kettering Animal Hospital Inc. More. More. As a follow-up to a case previously reported on this site, Dawn Philbin, the Saint Anthony Hospital worker…
Prompt Med statement on recent breach
In a statement released on Wednesday, Prompt Med, which took over Battleground Urgent Care, said they regret the incident in which hundreds of medical files were discovered in a Greensboro dumpster: Prompt Med Management Company, Inc. regrets the incident regarding transportation of patients’ medical records that occurred last week. These files were being transferred to…