Adam D. Krauss continues to update us on this case: An attorney for two doctors impacted by the privacy breach at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital says the Office of the Attorney General would have found WDH had to notify patients if the state knew a rogue employee accessed patients’ social security numbers and sensitive insurance policy data….
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Autopsy reports altered in data breach at WDH: Frisbie says it will notify families of deceased
Adam D. Krauss updates us on an insider breach at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital (WDH) that was covered previously on this site. Frisbie Memorial Hospital says it will notify the families of two patients whose autopsy reports were altered when a Wentworth-Douglass Hospital employee made unauthorized changes to patients records’ at WDH’s pathology lab. Frisbie’s plan is…
Autopsy reports altered in data breach at WDH: Frisbie says it will notify families of deceased
Adam D. Krauss updates us on an insider breach at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital (WDH) that was covered previously on this site. Frisbie Memorial Hospital says it will notify the families of two patients whose autopsy reports were altered when a Wentworth-Douglass Hospital employee made unauthorized changes to patients records’ at WDH’s pathology lab. Frisbie’s plan is…
NH: AG reviewing WDH patient records breach
As a follow-up to the coverage of a patient privacy breach involving Wentworth-Douglass Hospital (WDH), Adam D. Krauss of Foster’s Daily Democrat reports that a number of agencies are now piling on. Concern over Wentworth-Douglass Hospital’s handling of a broad privacy breach into patients’ records has widened with the Attorney General’s Office confirming it is…
Update: AG reviewing WDH patient records breach
Adam D. Krauss reports: Concern over Wentworth-Douglass Hospital’s handling of a broad privacy breach into patients’ records has widened with the Attorney General’s Office confirming it is reviewing what happened. “It is something we’re looking into,” said James Boffetti, who leads the AG’s Consumer Protection & Antitrust Bureau. Boffetti said he could not divulge specifics,…
NH: Pathology lab doctors say WDH punishing them for reporting privacy breaches by rogue employee
Adam D. Krauss reports on a case of what seems to involve patient record tampering without any clear financial or other motivation. In a fairly detailed story, Krauss discusses some of both the privacy and data security issues: Two doctors who run the pathology lab at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital say they’ll soon be out of a…