Computerworld Hong Kong reports: A Queen Elizabeth Hospital staffer lost a USB flash drive holding personal data of 92 patients, information of drug prescriptions, and dispensing related documents on Feb 18, but only reported the case to the hospital three days later. The missing USB flash drive–without encryption and password protection–belongs to a pharmacy department…
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Patient records should not have been sold, NHS admits
Kudos to reporter Laura Donnelly, who has been all over this breach and scandal: Medical records should not have been sold to the insurance industry, the new body in charge of NHS patient data has declared. The Telegraph disclosed that 13 years of hospital data – covering 47 million patients – was sold by the…
Brooklyn Hospital Center notifies patients of stolen USB with medical information
Brooklyn Hospital Center, a member hospital of the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System, posted this notice on their website, linked from their home page: Notice of Disclosure of Patient Information On December 2, 2013, a backpack belonging to a medical resident was stolen while the doctor was on The Brooklyn Hospital Center property. The backpack contained a USB…
PA: Geisinger-Bloomsburg Hospital notifies patients of missing laboratory records and specimens from 2006 and 2007
Geisinger-Bloomsburg Hospital in Pennsylvania posted this notice to their patients on the home page of their website: Geisinger-Bloomsburg Hospital (G-BH) is committed to serving the health care needs of the Bloomsburg and surrounding community—including protecting the confidentiality and privacy of our patients’ personal information. We recently became aware of an incident that involves patients’ health…
Vitalité Health Network finally informs patients of long-running privacy breach one year after discovering it?
CBC News reports: The Vitalité Health Network is informing some patients their personal medical records were accessed without authorization. The privacy breach was discovered a year ago. A doctor with the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre gained unauthorized access to the files using two hospital computers between Sept. 6, 2010 and Nov. 30, 2012, the letter signed by…
UK: Hospital records of all NHS patients sold to insurers
If this is true, then heads need to roll. And the sooner, the better. Laura Donnelly reports: The medical records of every NHS hospital patient in the country have been sold for insurance purposes, The Telegraph can reveal. The disclosure comes days after controversial plans to extract patient data from GP files were put on…