FOI is our friend. Greg Christison reports on data from 14 Scottish NHS boards: A Sunday Express investigation has found that around 80 items containing potentially sensitive data, including laptops, memory sticks, dictaphones and smartphones, have disappeared since January 2012. Read more on Sunday Express, but don’t expect to see numbers of unencrypted records with…
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A medication management app for consumers that makes sense to this patient privacy advocate
I’ve occasionally blogged about privacy and security concerns raised by mobile health applications. I’m happy to report that there’s now an app in beta-testing that may be very helpful to consumers without requiring consumers to sacrifice data security or privacy. The app automatically pulls in your prescription records from your pharmacy to enable you to…
Patient records shared in Idaho health data exchange unless patients opt-out
Audrey Dutton has an informative and thought-provoking article in the Idaho Statesman on health data exchanges and consent. It begins: Karen Helms didn’t realize until this year that her medical records were being shared with a statewide network of health care providers. The discovery prompted her to question the state’s health data exchange and to…
Florida Department of Health of Orange County discloses insider breach for tax refund fraud affecting 2,300 patients
Why report just one insider breach/tax refund fraud scheme for the day when you can report two? Here’s a statement the Florida Department of Health in Orange County posted today on their site: The Florida Department of Health in Orange County (DOH-Orange) is issuing a security breach notice to certain patients of its health centers…
Nursing assistant sentenced to 3 years for selling patient IDs
Another insider breach at a Florida healthcare facility. Patty Ryan reports that Denetria Barnes was sentenced to 37 months in prison Tuesday for conspiring with a boyfriend [Jakiel Bazart] to defraud the government by peddling hundreds of patient identities. Many wound up in the hands of a Tampa detective posing as a tax refund thief….
Patients' medical records go missing from University Hospital of North Staffordshire
Up to 70 sets of patients’ notes are going missing at Staffordshire’s biggest hospital every day, it has emerged. The shock findings come despite a new £60,000 digital system brought in to store them more safely. Bosses at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire admit that at any one time between 40 and 70 of…