Yan Chai Hospital has lost a batch of backup floppy discs containing 3,000 medical record applicants’ names and identity card numbers. The discs serve as backup copies storing the processing log sheet on medical report applications dated January 16, 2005, to January 15, 2006. They went missing during the encryption process and the hospital...
According to The Harris Poll(R), four percent or an estimated nine million American adults believe that they or a family member have had confidential personal medical information either lost or stolen. When asked which medical records – computerized or paper – they believe may be lost or stolen most often, just under half (47%)...
Patrick Howington reports: Dr. Paul Hollern, who once ran a chiropractor-training empire from Louisville, was sentenced yesterday to 12 months of probation for videotaping patients without their knowledge. Advertisement Hollern, 45, must serve six months of that time on home incarceration, but he is allowed to leave home to work. The jury could...
Jeff Ducharme of the Telegraph-Journal reports on what may be another file-sharing compromise — this one in St. John’s, Canada: The province’s ombudsman and privacy commissioner, Bernard Richard, said he’s looking into the loss of personal information from the Loch Lomond Villa. On Monday, Loch Lomond Villa CEO Cindy Donovan confirmed that personal data...
Christopher Sleight and Hayley Rothwell of BBC in Scotland report: Confidential patient information has been left lying in an abandoned hospital in Lanarkshire, BBC Scotland can reveal. X-rays marked with patients’ names, photographs and other paperwork were found scattered at Law Hospital in Carluke, which closed in 2001. The discovery comes weeks after it...
Dan Rozek reports: Jonah Greenthal said he hacked into the computer system at New Trier High School to check his class rank, but the 18-year-old senior found much more than that. Greenthal managed to tap into confidential school data that included teacher salaries, medical records and grade histories for students who had graduated as...
Medical records are supposed to be private. But one watchdog group said they found 50 pages of sensitive patient information out in the open in a trash bin outside a methadone clinic — the Middle Tennessee Treatment Center. Full story – NewsChannel5.com
A LAPTOP containing names and dental images of over 100 patients was stolen from the home of a Northern Health and Social Care Trust staff member, the MAIL has learned. “Our investigations assure us that although the missing files contain the names and dental photographs of 128 patients, there are no further details...
Denise Hnytka reports: The Wichita Radiological Group received an anonymous call saying their patient records may have been stolen. On Monday, the executive director reported the information to Wichita police. According to the police report, the caller claims a former employee stole patient records before being fired from the Wichita Radiological Group. The caller...
The BBC reports: A tape containing the records of more than 11,000 patients has been lost by a GP practice in Greater Manchester. The magnetic tape contains duplicates of current and old patient details at Whitaker Lane Practice in Prestwich. Doctors say the records can only be viewed using specialist equipment and are unlikely...