An Alpharetta, Ga.-based medical company suffered a data breach that may have affected 570 North Carolinians. A subcontractor for 24 ON Physicians PC “inadvertently failed to secure a computer server containing patient account information,” the company said today in a news release. The failure occurred between December and April. The information included invoice numbers, charge…
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AU: Privacy update: in for a penny, in for a pound — a warning for health service providers
DLA Piper writes: The Australian Privacy Commissioner has found that a suburban Melbourne medical practice has breached the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) by failing to take reasonable steps to secure personal information in its possession. […] The Pound Road Medical Centre (PRMC) moved premises in 2011 and believed that all paper-based medical records had been…
South Korean clinics defy ban on collecting ID
Lee Kyung-min reports: Hospitals continue to collect resident registration numbers from their patients, defying a newly enacted law that bans private entities from gathering personal information. However, they say that they have no choice but to continue to collect the identification numbers from patients since they have no alternatives to distinguish their customers. They insist…
UK: Alasdair McDonnell to be investigated over 'serious data breach'
BBC reports: An investigation has been launched into a “serious data breach” after medical files were found by children at a former health centre owned by SDLP leader Alasdair McDonnell. The sensitive information was found after the centre on the Ormeau Road in Belfast was demolished, the Irish News has reported. It included names, addresses…
MO: Hospital Accuses Woman of Violating HIPAA Laws for Taking Photos of Son
Campus Safety reports: A woman was detained and ordered to turn over her cell phone at Mercy Hospital for taking pictures of her son during a doctor’s appointment. Mandi Kay Wilson often takes pictures of her son’s audiology appointments because she uses the images on gofundme.com to raise money for her son’s expensive hearing aids. At age…
Resource: Videos from 2014 Health Privacy Summit available online
If you missed the 2014 Health Privacy Summit, you can view videos from the conference on Patient Privacy Rights’ site.