Alex Matthews-King reports: The NHS’s information centre will have to contact potentially millions of patients who have opted out of care.data informing them they will not receive services such as e-prescribing, bowel screening, e-referrals or e-pathology reporting when the scheme goes live. In a letter submitted to the commons health committee, the Health and Social Care…
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California Pacific Medical Center discovers employee was improperly accessing patient records for one year
The following press release from California Pacific Medical Center, a Sutter Health facility, was submitted to the California Attorney General’s web site today. A copy of the notice, dated January 23, 2015, is also posted on CPMC’s web site: Audit finds employee access to patient files without apparent business or treatment purpose California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC)…
Ca: GPS tracking no longer to be used on mental health patients
Canadian Press reports: The Nova Scotia government says it will not use tracking devices for forensic mental health patients after reports raised concerns about it. The government says it began gathering information about the technology after a patient at a local forensic hospital was alleged to have committed a homicide in April 2012 while absent…
TX: Sunglo Home Health Services computer with patient info stolen from office
KRGV reports: Thousands of people throughout the Rio Grande Valley are in a vulnerable position because of a burglary. Sunglo Home Health Services has thousands of patients across the Valley. Their personal information is in the hands of a Harlingen burglar. […] According to Means, the man broke a window with a fire extinguisher and…
Ca: Anti-abortion activist snooped into patient records
Olivia Carville reports some additional details involving a breach at Peterborough Regional Health Centre that has been noted on PHIprivacy.net since 2012, including a lawsuit against the centre: An anti-abortion activist who worked at an Ontario hospital was sacked after a massive privacy breach in which abortion files, among other patient records, were inappropriately accessed. Dawn DeCiccio, a high-profile anti-abortion campaigner,…
NL: Patient records stolen from UMC Groningen
Taneli Savela reports: Medical records from the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) that were supposed to be destroyed, ended up in the spotlight on regional broadcaster RTV Noord. The program shows the workers of the employment company Synergon handling old x-rays carelessly. Synergon has reported the theft to the police. UMCG uses a company named Virol to…