Aleksandra Kostantinovic reports that an employee clearing out his belongs accidentally loaded patient records into his car, but contacted the hospital immediately when he realized what had happened: The hospital records of approximately 6,500 patients were removed without authorization from the premises of Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside on Aug. 8, the hospital announced. A…
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UK: GP anger at 'outrageous' loss of patient blood samples and data
This one was reported earlier this month, but I just caught up with it: Nick Bostock reports: GPs have reacted with outrage after police confirmed a van stolen with hundreds of pathology test samples was left unlocked, with its keys inside. Merton Police have called off the search for the van, stolen with up to…
Cedars-Sinai Health System to notify patients whose unencrypted information was on laptop stolen from an employee's home
Cedars-Sinai Health System Issues Notice of Data Incident LOS ANGELES (Aug. 22, 2014) – Although there is no indication of any actual or attempted unauthorized access to health information, Cedars-Sinai Health System will be notifying certain patients who have the potential to be affected by the theft of a Cedars-Sinai-issued laptop computer that may have…
ManagedMed reports patient scheduling data breach to California
ManagedMed Inc. (A Psychological Corporation), based in Los Angeles, recently notified the California Attorney General’s Office of a breach involving patient scheduling information. According to their July 17th letter to patients, submitted to the state on July 25, some patient scheduling information located in their computerized system had been viewed via an unsecured webpage by…
Patient's Snooping Claim Amounts to Defamation
Jeff D. Gorman reports: A woman who wrongly accused a clinic employee of revealing her pregnancy in breach of medical confidentiality committed defamation, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled. Karen Greene complained that Beverly Tinker improperly gained access to Greene’s medical file at the Pilot Station Health Clinic in 2007. Though Tinker said she merely looked…
CORRECTED: E.A. Conway learns of FTP exposure breach of patient information; information exposed for over one year
CORRECTION AND UPDATE: See this email and documentation from Professor Bowne. It seems that the media reporting on a breach involving patients at E. A. Conway Medical Center was inaccurate in some important respects, with the inaccuracies stemming from the Louisiana State University Health System‘s notice about the breach. To summarize: Professor Sam Bowne of City…