Kanazawa City Hospital Personal information such as patients Unauthorized employees of the entrusted company Taking out illegally December 9 14:21
At Kanazawa City Hospital in Kanazawa, it was found that over 1600 personal information such as patients and doctors were illegally taken out by employees of a company that had entrusted the operation of electronic medical records. So far, no misuse of information has been confirmed.
According to Kanazawa City Hospital, the personal information of the patient was illegally taken out by male employees in their 50s of the information service company Intec, which is headquartered in Toyama City, which was responsible for the maintenance of electronic medical records.
This employee illegally took home the paper with the name, address, date of birth, gender, etc. of 1528 patients and 144 hospital staff such as doctors.
According to the hospital, the employee was resident in the hospital from September 2008 to April and worked alone in a private room. In response to the company's interview, “We took the backing paper for use as a memo paper. ".
As for this employee, it has been revealed by Intec's in-house survey that he has worked at Takaoka Municipal Hospital and Tonami General Hospital in Toyama Prefecture and brought out patient information. No hospital misuse has been confirmed so far for any hospital.
Deputy Secretary General Takayuki Warida of Kanazawa City Hospital said, “The hospital takes the situation where patient information has been brought out seriously as a hospital. Talking