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Laptop stolen from NHLBI contained personal health information

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2008-03-24 22:13:49 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...clinical trial data, including names, medical diagnoses and details of the patients' heart scans The information was not encrypted, in violation of the government's data-security policy Evan] What good is a policy if it is not followed or enforced? There should be penalties for non-compliance Although the laptop was turned off and...
 
Tags: information, nhlbi, financial information, medical information, laptop computers, nhlbi laptop computers, confidential information, government laptop computer, government
 
 
 
 
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Stolen Bolton Hospitals Laptop affects cancer patients

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2008-02-04 10:47:22 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...clinical correspondence between medical staff Breach Description A laptop computer containing sensitive personal information belonging to gynaecology cancer patients from Bolton, Wigan and Salford (UK) was stolen from the office of a radiology consultant in October 2007, but only recently came to light Reference URL The Bolton News online...
 
Tags: royal bolton hospital, bolton hospital, bolton hospitals, hospital, relevant hospital staff, hospital staff, patients, bolton, medical information
 
 
 
 
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Laptop missing from Russells Hall Hospital (UK)

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2008-02-15 14:08:13 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...clinical records of 5,123 anticoagulation patients on it The database is password/login protected and a separate Trust login and password is required to operate the laptop. Accessing patient information will therefore be difficult Evan] I would not say that accessing the information would be difficult Clearly this is a serious issue Evan]...
 
Tags: information, personal information, medical information, data, data protection, information security, data encryption software, russells hall hospital, hospital
 
 
 
 
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Stolen NHS flash drive contained adolescent information

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2008-03-06 11:23:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...clinical treatment details Breach Description A laptop was stolen from a speech therapist at the Madeley Health Centre in Shropshire (UK). According to officials the laptop has been secured, but a flash drive containing personal information belonging to child patients of the clinic is missing Reference URL Computerworld BBC News The...
 
Tags: information, personal information, medical information, information security, confidential information, information security strategy, nhs, information disclosure, information security program
 
 
 
 
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What is Safe Enough?

2007-08-03 11:28:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...clinical trials study thousands of patients. But deadly complications to new drugs are often extremely rare and don't emerge until millions of people have taken the drug The FDA must weigh many factors when it comes to deciding whether to keep a drug on the market. Do the benefits outweigh the risks? Do other drugs on the market treat the...
 
Tags: drug, fda drug standards, safe, fda, measure safe, drug safety, fda panel, fda advisory panel, market
 
 
 
 
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Metro Round-Up: OpenAirBOston

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2008-04-14 11:12:29 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...clinical research that shows such sensitivity to be unprovable, even as the symptoms are clearly manifest (just not correlated with EMF). The article notes that one radio host who speaks on health has his words carried by a station that is bumping more signal out across Sebastopol than any Wi-Fi network would. In a true Sonoma moment,...
 
Tags: projects, comparable projects, network, municipal projects, wi-fi network, island project, city-wide network, true, pilot projects
 
 
 
 
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700,000 records on stolen CCB server

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2008-04-22 14:57:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Clinical Laboratory Physicians, Comdent, Comprecare, Culligan Water Conditioning, Cummins Behavioral Health System, D.E. Kelley DDS, Daniel Feeny MD, David Pennington III MD, David Shaw MD, David Szentes MD, Denture By Design, Dermatopathology Lab, Diagnostic Medicine, Dunlap Urgent Care, Edward J Diekhoff MD, Emily Cline MD, Emergency...
 
Tags: dds, gary taylor dds, gary hunt dds, lawrence falender dds, joseph meek dds, caryn guba dds, mark ellis dds, sarah akard dds, ccb
 
 
 
 
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Sandown Health Centre backup tape is missing

2008-05-27 13:14:16 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
 
...clinical software They carry out checks on computer back-up tapes to make sure they could be used effectively to restore information to the practice computer system in the event of a system failure or other emergency such as a fire Unfortunately, the tape has not been received back at the Health Centre, having been despatched by the company...
 
Tags: tape, health centre, sandown health centre, data verification, data verification company, back-up tape, computer tape, information, personal information
 
 
 
 
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Metro Round-Up: Phila., Minneapolis, St. Louis Park (Minn.), Texas, Foster City (Calif.), Naperville (Ill.), Chehalis and Centralia (Wash.), Cambria C

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2008-06-11 14:33:41 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...clinical studies. I am, however, as always, concerned about these people's health, even if I don't believe that Wi-Fi (or EMF) causes their problems. The group opposed to library-Fi is citing the ADA in this case, uniquely I believe. Six libraries suggested that EMF triggers seizures in epileptics, something I've never heard cited before;...
 
Tags: city, big-city network, residents oppose wi-fi, wi-fi, mount wi-fi radios, wi-fi hotzones, wi-fi network, network, network hardware
 
 
 
 
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Operational security failure

2008-06-17 11:29:01 by Ross Anderson in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...clinical system safety and privacy, we trained the staff at one health authority to detect false-pretext phone calls, and they found 30 a week. We reported this to the Department of Health, hoping theyd introduce some operational security measures nationwide; instead the Department got furious at us for treading on their turf and ordered the...
 
Tags: health authority, health, department, privacy, nhs chief executive, patient privacy, clinical system safety