Denis Campbell reports: The NHS has been warned to beware of computer hackers after it was targeted by the same group that conducted cyber assaults on Sony and Nintendo. Hospital trusts and primary care trusts (PCTs) across England have been alerted to the security breach by Connecting for Health, the Department of Health’s IT branch,…
Compromise Reached on Maine Health Data Privacy
Associated Press is reporting: A new law will give about two-thirds of Maine’s population a choice on whether to keep their medical records on an independent computer database. A compromise bill, LD 1337, that quietly worked its way to enactment, requires that Maine residents whose medical records are stored in the HealthInfoNet database get an opportunity…
UK: ICO issues monetary penalty of £120,000 to Surrey Council over misdirected emails
Three strikes and you’re out, it seems. The Information Commissioner’s Office has just issued a monetary fine to Surrey Council after repeated instances of misdirected e-mails containing personal information. From the press release: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) today served Surrey County Council with a monetary penalty of £120,000 for a serious breach of the Data Protection…
UK: ICO issues monetary penalty of £120,000 to Surrey Council over misdirected emails
Three strikes and you’re out, it seems. The Information Commissioner’s Office has just issued a monetary fine to Surrey Council after repeated instances of misdirected e-mails containing personal information. From the press release: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) today served Surrey County Council with a monetary penalty of £120,000 for a serious breach of the Data Protection Act…
VA Caribbean Healthcare System to Provide Free Credit Monitoring to Veterans
This was posted on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs web site and dated May 20, 2011: San Juan, PR – The VA Caribbean Healthcare System is notifying and offering one year of free credit monitoring to 1,691 Veterans and staff whose personal information was left unsecured in an unrestricted area of the San Juan…
HealthCare Partners Notifies Patients of Breach of Unsecured Personal Information
From their press release, dated June 3: HealthCare Partners notified 15,727 patients of a breach of unsecured personal patient protected health information after discovering, on Monday, April 18, 2011, the theft of nineteen new computers from the medical group’s offices at 675 Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena and at 2600 Redondo Avenue in Long Beach. HealthCare…