Scott Macnab reports: Health chiefs failed to remove confidential patient records from a disused hospital despite repeated warnings, an official report yesterday found. NHS Tayside took action only after media reports emerged about the data which had been left lying at Strathmartine Hospital on the outskirts of Dundee. Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon yesterday said the…
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UK: GPs are the weakest link in data losses claims NHS chief
Steve Nowottny reports: The Government is planning to make compliance with data security standards a contractual requirement after claiming GPs are the weak link in keeping patient records safe. The plans – which are likely to be resisted by GPC negotiators – come just a week after a Pulse investigation found that four NHS trusts…
2 Staten Island nursing home emplyees charged in credit card theft
Two employees of a Stapleton nursing home were arrested after stealing a credit card from a patient’s bedside drawer and using it at several locations on Staten Island, according to a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan. Denard Brown, 44, of St. Mark’s Place in New Brighton and Benedicta Charles, 44, who lives at the…
Schwarzenegger signs bills creating hospital privacy oversight office
Jordan Rau and Patrick McGreevy report: Hospitals and other health facilities will face harsh new penalties if their employees snoop in the medical records of patients, under legislation signed Tuesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after privacy was breached on celebrities’ files — including his wife’s — at UCLA Medical Center. Schwarzenegger approved two bills creating…
UK: Data security lapses endemic in NHS, investigation reveals
Steve Nowottny reports: EXCLUSIVE: Four NHS trusts in five have lost patient data or suffered a data security breach since the beginning of last year, Pulse can reveal. Our investigation reveals the true scale of confidentiality breaches within the NHS, with trusts reporting more than 1,300 incidents since January 2007. […] Figures obtained the Freedom…
New Color Coded Hospital Bracelets Save Lives, But Raise Privacy Concerns
ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS reports: At hospitals, as at Tiffany’s, ruby-colored bracelets are far preferable to amethyst. New York’s 11 public hospitals are at the forefront of a national movement to standardize color coding of hospital wristbands to designate patient conditions, in which purple — the color of amethyst — means “Do Not Resuscitate.†Red, or ruby,…