Don Logana reports: A former nursing home employee is in jail tonight charged with elder abuse and stealing the identities of as many as 40 residents from nursing homes in the area. Thunderbolt police say Tamara Smith used her job as a certified nursing assistant to gain access to patients personal information. She is accused…
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IE: Red faces as health records dumped in North
Ciaran Byrne reports: The Data Protection Commissioner confirmed last night that medical notes found dumped in the North clearly identify 16 Irish hospital patients. An investigation has been launched into how the sensitive notes came to be dumped in a laneway in Co Derry. The Data Protection Commissioner said the notes identify the people involved…
Minnesota offers new controls on newborn blood tests
The Minnesota Department of Health announced new measures Friday designed to address concerns that a program of blood screening for Minnesota newborns could violate patient and family privacy rights. In a key step, the department will propose legislation this year giving it the right to keep infants’ blood samples for two years, as part of…
Hospital Addresses Online Privacy Mistake
When a former patient at West Penn hospital went online to pay her bill, she discovered that she could access 85 other patients’ information, including their names, addresses, medical procedures and costs. When the hospital did not reply to two emails she sent alerting them to the problem, she went to a news station, and…
UK: Security probe after data breach at prison
Aasma Day reports: A security probe has been launched after a memory stick containing details of more than 6,000 prisoners was lost – with the password attached to it. The USB data stick was lost by a health worker at Preston prison. All 6,360 patients are, or have been, a prisoner at Her Majesty’s Prison…
CVS Caremark's Privacy Practices, Conflicts of Interest Subject of D.C. City Council Hearing
Received this press release by e-mail from Change to Win: On Friday, Jan. 9 at 10:00 A.M., D.C. Councilmember David Catania will chair a hearing of the NAME to look into how CVS Caremark’s practices regarding patient privacy could be impacting D.C. consumers and other questionable practices by the retail drug giant. The hearings…