Ontario’s privacy commissioner is launching an investigation into how patients’ sensitive medical records ended up being blown around a downtown Ottawa street Wednesday. Ann Cavoukian said she alerted CML Healthcare immediately after hearing that an Ottawa man had found the papers on O’Connor Street, outside a medical centre housing a CML medical imaging clinic….
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FL: Private Medical Records 'Found In Garbage'
Erich Spivey reports: What happens inside these walls, at Dr. Anjali Pathak’s office, is supposed to remain private. But pages upon pages of un-shredded medical documents from Dr. Pathak’s Southside counseling office arrived here at First Coast News. An unsigned note reads, “Patient’s psychiatric records found in garbage.” […] All total, we found personal information…
Why shared medical database is wrong prescription
Jacob. M. Appel, a healthcare attorney, has an OpEd in the Orlando Sentinel about EMRs: […] The key element in any electronic medical system is what bioinformaticians call interoperability. This refers to the capability of repositories of EMRs (e.g. hospitals, doctors offices, nursing homes) to access and exchange data through the same system. Currently, the…
Hk: Hospital contravenes privacy rules: report
The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data’s investigation has found the United Christian Hospital has contravened the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance in the loss of a USB flash drive containing patients’ personal data. Releasing the report today, Commissioner Roderick Woo said before using a USB device, hospital staff should first consider whether there is a real…
SoCal Hospital Employee Accused of ID Theft, Insurance Fraud
More than 1,000 patients of Cedars-Siani Medical Center may have had personal information taken by a former employee, who allegedly used their identities to defraud insurance companies. A search of the home of James Allen Wilson, 44, turned up the patients’ information, the hospital’s chief financial officer said in a letter to the affected persons…
UK: Missing secret data scandal
A whole bunch of breaches, some of which we never knew about at the time, some involving patient records, some involving employee records. Some of the bigger non-patient ones were reported on PogoWasRight.org at the time and can be found by searching that site. HIGHLY sensitive child protection papers are among scores of documents and…