Talia Shadwell reports: A Palmerston North woman is accusing MidCentral District Health Board staff of a privacy breach, after she was mailed another mental health client’s file along with her own records. The health board is investigating Zelda McConachy’s claims that she has repeatedly received other mental health services clients’ confidential files mixed up with…
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Prime Healthcare Services fined $95,000 in privacy case
If you’ve been reading my blog for a few years, you’ll likely remember the case where Shasta Regional Medical Center and Prime Healthcare Services disclosed a patient’s records to the media, claiming that because the patient had talked to the media, she had waived confidentiality. The case was initially reported in January, and I posted an update in May…
More x-ray breaches at hospitals
Two hospitals are reporting breaches involving x-ray films. WITN reports that a North Carolina hospital, Vidant Pungo Hospital, is sending letters to as many of the 1,100 affected patients as they can find, after paper jackets with old radiology films were accidentally sent out with the trash to a local landfill.The paper jackets contained the…
VT: Woman gets probation for looking at another’s medical records
I had missed this case every time it appeared in the media, it seems, but the Times Argus reported on November 10 that a former employee at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center was sentenced for snooping into the records of her husband’s ex-wife on numerous occasions: After an emotional hearing, a judge sentenced a woman who…
CT: Bag stolen from car in September contained data from Soundental Associates
The New Haven Register reports: A bag stolen from a car in September contained data from a local dentist office, but the business said Monday that patients’ privacy has not been compromised. The bag contained personal items and back-up media cartridges from Soundental Associates P.C. that were being taken to an off-site storage location. It…
Safe stolen from Dayton chiropractic office
NewsTalkRadioWHIO reports: A chiropractic office was broken into early Monday morning and reportedly had a safe and computer stolen. The break in occurred at about 1:30 a.m. at Long Chiropractic, located at 4978 Northcutt Pl., according to a Dayton Police incident report. Thieves broke out a window on the south side of the building and…