Joel Sherman, M.D. writes: Medical scribes are a burgeoning field with many institutions and practices exploring their use while the many commercial enterprises who lease out scribes are pushing for their widespread acceptance. There is no accepted definition of what scribes do or what their background or training should be. There is no mechanism for…
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council signs undertaking after case file left at client’s home
An undertaking to comply with the seventh data protection principle has been signed (pdf) by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council. This follows an investigation into a social worker leaving a case file containing sensitive personal data at a client’s home. According to the undertaking, the Information Commissioner’s Office was informed of the breach in March 2013. After…
Former JHU grad students’ personal data exposed online
Pamela reports: More than 2,000 Social Security numbers of former Johns Hopkins University graduate students were exposed to potential hackers, the university confirmed Saturday. Hopkins officials discovered on March 19 that the names and Social Security numbers of 2,166 former students were stored on a server that was accessible to the Internet, said Dennis O’Shea, a university…
More Doctors Hit by Fraud
Jordan Cuddemi reports: Another two dozen physicians and other medical personnel in the Twin States have had their Social Security numbers stolen and then used to file fraudulent federal tax returns, bringing the total number of victims to more than 180, according to medical society officials in Vermont and New Hampshire. What remains unclear, however,…
Iowa DHS: Medicaid records sent to wrong clinic
AP reports: Iowa officials say personal information from more than 800 Medicaid clients was accidentally mailed to the wrong health clinic. Iowa Medicaid Enterprise, a division of the state Department of Human Services, says Friday the error occurred during the mailing process. Patient listings were mailed in February. The listings include the patient’s name, phone…
MI: More than 10,000 student names, internal ID numbers accessible in data breach by GVSU vendor
Brian McVicar reports: Grand Valley State University says student social security numbers were not accessible last week when a university vendor accidentally posted online a list of names, addresses and internal id numbers of more than 10,000 students. The university discovered on Saturday, April 19, that the information was accessible on the website of Kent…