follow-up: Probe into breach of hospital records is widened

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/probe-into-breach-of-hospital-records-is-widened-2840570.html

Probe into breach of hospital records is widened
By Breda Heffernan and Allison Bray
Friday August 05 2011

AN investigation into a data breach involving sensitive patient 
information has been broadened to include all doctors who have private 
contracts with the transcription firm.

It comes as U-Scribe, the company hired by Tallaght Hospital to transcribe 
doctors' notes, was found to have had contracts with two more Irish 
hospitals. Mercy University Hospital in Cork has had a contract with the 
firm for the past six years, while Galway University Hospital had a 
six-month involvement with it in 2004.

U-Scribe provided transcription services for Tallaght Hospital until May 
of this year.

Its contract was terminated after confidential patient information got 
into "inappropriate hands" in the Philippines.

It also had a number of private contracts with individual consultants in 
Ireland to transcribe their notes.

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