I haven’t seen any reports on it yet, but I hope that Moore Medical Center in Moore, Oklahoma had its patient records and other data backed up off-site, as the medical center was wrecked by the tornado that hit last week. And what about all of the paper records with PII or PHI that might…
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For an extra paltry £140, private insurer can buy identifiable data on NHS patients
Randeep Ramesh reports: Private health firms, including Bupa, can pay £140 to identify potentially millions of patients and then access their health records, detailing intimate medical histories, under a new national arrangement in the NHS, the Guardian can reveal. The records, which include sensitive information about hospital visits, such as a mother’s history of still births,…
Medical worker stole patient identities
Debbie Knox of WISH TV in Indiana reports: Greenwood police was the agency that alerted Community Health that they had an employee who was stealing patients’ identities. “A former patient had stated that they had reason to believe that someone had taken their identity,” said Jean Putnam, Vice President at Community Health Network.” Between mid-March…
LSU Health: Personal information of 8,300 patients unintentionally released
For the second time in six months, Louisiana State University (LSU) has disclosed a breach involving patient information. Willard Woods of KSLA reports: A database error in a computer entry field led to the disclosure of personal health information of 8,330 LSU Health patients. The hospital says it notified each patient on Wednesday of the…
Tucson patients personal information found in Tempe
KVOA reports that information on 8 patients of a Tucson doctor including their names, date of birth, Social Security numbers, and health insurance information wound up in a yard in Tempe. We won’t name the Tucson doctor involved because it is still unclear where the mistake was made, but we do know the company that handles his…
Dismissing a student for blogging about patients – free speech v. confidentiality agreements in the Sixth Circuit
Long-time readers may remember the case of Nina Yoder, a nursing student who was expelled from the University of Louisville School of Nursing [SON] in 2009 for allegedly breaching the honor code and confidentiality agreements she had signed by her posts on MySpace. A district judge had ordered her reinstatement in August 2009, and Yoder…