Collaborate Disseminate
Sabrina Johnson reports: Dozens of confidential patient records, staff notes and sensitive files have been found in a derelict unsecured Norfolk care home, in what has been branded a “serious breach” of data protection. Pine Heath nursing h… Continue reading Uk: ‘A scandal’ – Boxes of patient medical records found in abandoned care home
Robert Fucci reports that Concord, Massachusetts is first notifying 70,000 people whose information was on 108 hard drives that went missing in 2019. It’s taken them until now to figure out whom to notify, it seems. “We’ve been waiting on some d… Continue reading MA: Concord data breach affected about 70,000 across the country; hard drives still missing
Jonathan Humphries reports: A senior medic has been suspended after running a clinical trial using sensitive medical information without permission of his hospital. Miguel Martin Garcia, a band 8 physiotherapist at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, use… Continue reading UK: Hospital medic lost boxes of private patient data while conducting study without approval
PJ Randhawa reports: A popular Florissant dialysis clinic is the subject of a class-action lawsuit after an I-Team report uncovered the facility “lost” the medical records of up to 60 patients. In July, the I-Team found dozens of private medical record… Continue reading Florissant dialysis center faces class-action lawsuit after I-Team investigates
Stéphane Pitre, Anne Merminod, Alexandra Hebert, Alexis Leray of BLG Law Firm write: On March 26, 2021, the Superior Court rendered a landmark judgment dealing with the loss of personal information, Lamoureux c. OCRCVM, 2021 QCCS 1093. Madam Justice Fl… Continue reading A first in Canada: Class action over loss of personal information dismissed on the merits
Heather Crawford reports that First Coast News has been investigating papers found on the side of the road in St. Johns County. The papers, that included a prescription bag with prescription records and a nursing home’s information, appeared to c… Continue reading Florida: Personal and Prescription Information Found on Side of Road
Yesterday, Cedar Springs Hospital in Colorado issued a press release about an incident that involved the state. They explain: Cedar Springs Hospital recently received a request from its licensing agency, the Colorado Department of Public Health & … Continue reading Cedar Springs Hospital notifies patients of breach after state loses drive with patient data
Anan Zaki reports: The Parole Board has admitted to a privacy breach after one of its members lost a portable memory drive. The member travelled on an Air New Zealand flight from Dunedin to Hamilton on 13 November, when they lost the drive. New Zealand… Continue reading NZ: Parole Board admits to privacy breach
Jessica Sansome reports: A woman received a parcel from Lloyds Pharmacy containing hundreds of prescription records – exposing confidential patient information. She believes the box from Lloyds Pharmacy was meant to be delivered to NHS prescripti… Continue reading Investigation launched after hundreds of confidential patient details from Lloyd Pharmacy were sent to a woman in the post
Zoe Low reports: A filing cabinet containing more than 400 patient records was suspected to have been mistakenly disposed of by a contractor at Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital last Friday. The locked four-drawer steel cabinet was used to store the serv… Continue reading 400 patient records lost after cabinet at Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital mistakenly removed by contractor