Name the supplier as well
Other hospital may well want to know which company was involved, as they may wish to review current arrangements! So who were they?
A private health firm in the UK has been fined £200,000 after fertility patients’ confidential conversations leaked online. The £200,000 monetary penalty was levied following an investigation by Blighty's Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) into the way the Lister Hospital in London was transferring, transcribing and …
* Outsourced to India just to save a few pennies by hiring cheaper transcribers ... And it all leads to this classic Data Leak... Things just keep getting better and better...
* What more can we expect with such a paltry fine!! Lawsuit coming? Maybe, and if so that should concentrate a few minds, as the transcripts are privileged and possibly somewhat revealing / embarrassing!
* I'd like to see company directors get named and shamed in these articles too. Make it personal, compel a change in behaviour from what are reckless procedures that are not good for internet-health.
Is just the ICO fine.
Affected people can also claim - and it might well be the death of 1 million paper cuts which actaully makes companies blink.
This is the kind of area where a few enterprising ambulance chasers could earn steady coin. The fact that the ICO's hit them with a large fine would make any civil case a matter of determining individual compensation levels rather than having to prove the leak.