UK Hospital Fires Worker for Looking at Ed Sheeran's Health Records

guest · May 21, 2018

UK Hospital Fires Worker for Looking at Ed Sheeran's Health Records
May 20, 2018
https://gizmodo.com/uk-hospital-fires-worker-for-looking-at-ed-sheerans-hea-1826177893

According to the BBC, two medical staff workers at Ipswich Hospital in Suffolk, England accessed the health records of the famous singer and Game of Thrones background actor for no legitimate reason. The staffers were both given a written warning for the incident, and a member of the administrative staff was fired.

While the Sheeran episode obviously has a very limited scope in who was affected (just Ed, really), it’s still certainly a data breach and it raises a considerable number of questions regarding the safeguards put in place to protect the privacy of patients.

These types of breaches may not grab headlines the way massive hacks or ransomware campaigns like the one that hit NHS hospitals in 2017 do, but the small incidents happen with more regularity than you might think. A 2011 survey of healthcare IT managers found that 27 percent of breaches of personal health information were the result of workers improperly accessing the records of friends and relatives. That’s enough to make anyone nervous about their next doctor visit.
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deBoetie · May 21, 2018

Good.

Rather disturbing that they are talking about instituting better protections but only if you're a celeb.....

Now if only they properly sanctioned those in the TLAs who disgracefully did things like monitor calls home from acting service personnel (loveint).

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