Protenus has published its Breach Barometer for April, with data and some analyses provided by this site. The analyses were based on the following incidents: Amedisys Home Health Area Agency of Aging 1-B: On March 31, 2017 the Area Agency on Aging 1-B (AAA 1-B) became aware of an unintentional potential disclosure of the personal health information…
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Unencrypted patient info from 2008 left in a van, and…… yeah.
From their disclosure notice: Western Health Screening (“WHS”) is an organization that offers comprehensive blood screening tests. It partners with community organizations, such as hospitals, to provide onsite blood screenings at Health Fairs throughout the Western slope of Colorado. You have been a participant at Health Fairs in the past that were sponsored by either…
Ca: Patient information shows up at wrong Corner Brook company
Colleen Connors reports: Western Health faces a privacy breach after 10 pages of patient information were incorrectly sent to a company in Corner Brook Tuesday. The documents include patient names, phone numbers and information pertaining to their doctors. The paperwork also listed medical transportation expenses required for patients living at BayShore Estates, a personal care home…
UK: ICO announces two undertakings following theft of sensitive personal data
The Information Commissioner’s Office announced two undertakings today. The first, involving Western Health & Social Care Trust follows two incidents. One incident concerned the theft of two computers from Trust premises during a burglary on October 8, 2013. The computer contained sensitive personal data relating to the provision of specialist mental health services by a retired employee. Although investigation determined…
Ca: Patient lab results faxed to business owner, not doctor
CBC reports: A man in western Newfoundland says he has once again received confidential medical information from a health authority on his fax machine by mistake. David Simmons said he received patient laboratory test results to his company’s fax machine from Western Health on three occasions in 2012. This winter, he received test results from Central Health. Read more on…
Ca: Colbourne no longer listed as a defendant in privacy breach class-action lawsuit
Diane Crocker reports: The woman alleged to have inappropriately accessed the files of over 1,000 people while employed as a clerk with Western Health at Western Memorial Regional Hospital in Corner Brook has been removed as a defendant in a class-action lawsuit over the privacy breach. That leaves Western Health as the sole defendant in…