WASHINGTON – Thousands of patient records at the VA hospitals in Buffalo and Batavia have likely been misplaced or damaged, according to federal officials who have been prodding the facilities to improve their record-keeping. VA officials uncovered the problem after the associate director of the Buffalo medical center initially dismissed worker complaints about shoddy record-keeping, […]
Read MoreIf you visit a doctor’s office, it’s not unusual to provide them with sensitive information. But Fox45 found something alarming on Wednesday after discovering hundreds of medical records thrown away in a dumpster near a doctor’s office. The files were discovered by a worker from another doctor’s office near Amos Medical Services, a geriatric clinic […]
Read MoreAuthor Name Patrick Ouellette While human error is unavoidable from time to time, what healthcare organizations do to minimize the impact of those mistakes with health data goes under the microscope when breaches occur. DENT Neurologic Institute of Amherst, NY recently experienced a data breach and hasn’t explained whaat (if any) email technical safeguards it […]
Read MoreA WASTE contractor has been prosecuted for fly-tipping personal documents from residents in a Hull care home. Benson Khiumba was prosecuted for dumping controlled waste from Woodford Care Home, in Holderness Road. After failing to appear in court In April, Khiumba was arrested and prosecuted for three offences under the Environmental Protection Act and one […]
Read MoreBy dave blackhurst A MAJOR investigation is today under way to find a hospital worker behind a high-level security breach aimed at discrediting a doctor. The staff member obtained confidential information about three stroke patients – and then posed as a nurse to write letters raising concerns about their treatment to loved-ones. The letters targeted […]
Read MoreTwo veterans have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs over a recent data breach at the William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center in in Columbia, S.C., The State reports. About the Data Breach In February, VA officials reported that a laptop was missing from a testing lab in the Dorn medical center’s respiratory […]
Read MoreA security alert from the University of Rochester Medical Center. Hundreds of former orthopedic patients have had their personal information compromised. The hospital says a resident physician misplaced a computer flash drive that had the information on it. The breach happened in March. Since then, the hospital has had to retrace its steps and send letters out […]
Read MoreAuthor Name Patrick Ouellette Lakeshore Mental Health Institute of Tennessee has been associated with a strange patient data breach of records that date back to 1995, but the incident doesn’t involve any current patients. That’s because, as WBIR.com reports, the organization ended patient admissions in June 2012, but sensitive data has still been exposed to […]
Read MoreBy Jordan Robertson Arnold Salinas knows a lot about the person who stole his identity. He’s 5-foot-9, 190 pounds. He pays for pizzas with forged checks, defaulted on a $17,000 car loan and has traveled the country, racking up speeding tickets and thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes, according to Salinas and a firm he’s […]
Read MoreBY DONNA DEENEY Medical records containing intimate details of patients being treated in a Western Trust hospital have been dumped in a woman’s garden. The confidential documents of 17 different elderly patients from the Waterside Hospital included instructions to doctors not to resuscitate certain patients. They were discovered by a woman in a bin bag […]
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