Dawn Monaghan writes: The health sector always provides a wealth of data protection challenges, but without doubt the one currently at the forefront of most peoples’ minds are the changes to how patient information in England could be used by NHS bodies and others, with a view to improving care and health services. With personal…
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TX: State mental hospitals faulted for patient privacy breaches
Andrea Ball reports: A Big Spring State Hospital employee was fired last week after officials say she walked out of the psychiatric facility with 50 patients’ protected health records. A folder containing 47 pages of personal health information — including names, diagnoses and treatments — was discovered in a public trash bin off campus. It…
Ca: Patient information stolen from Covenant Health
Chandra Lye reports: A briefcase containing private patient information was stolen from a Covenant Health employee last month. Officials told CTV News that the briefcase was taken from the worker’s vehicle on December 23. Read more on CTV Edmonton. Covenant notified the 41 people whose information was in the briefcase on January 8, even though…
CT: 850 St. Francis Hospital patients notified after records stolen from contract physician's car
NBC reports: Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center has reached out to more than 850 patients after records were stolen from a doctor’s vehicle in December to notify them of the privacy breach. The hospital released a statement saying it has notified 858 patients after learning that paper records were stolen from Dr. Bindu Vanapalli’s…
NC: CaroMont Health notifies patients of theft of their information
Less than three months after it disclosed one security breach, CaroMont is back in the news after a record with patients’ information was stolen from an employee’s car on December 16. Michael Barrett reports: Melissa Huggins said respiratory problems related to pneumonia took her to CaroMont Regional Medical Center last year. But she doesn’t understand…
Ca: Medicentres laptop with info on 620,000 patients was stolen in September. NOW they tell them?
CBC News reports: A laptop with the unencrypted personal health information of 620,000 Albertans was stolen last September, Health Minister Fred Horne announced Wednesday. The laptop contained the names, dates of birth, provincial health card numbers, billing codes and diagnostic codes of the individuals seen at Medicentres between May 2, 2011, and Sept. 10, 2013….