IT companies allege that one of New Zealand’s largest networks of doctors and nurses has been storing hundreds of thousands of sensitive patient records, without express consent.
Four healthcare IT companies are warning that one of New Zealand’s largest networks of family doctors, nurses and general practice teams has been storing hundreds of thousands of patient records containing personally identifiable information (PII) – without the knowledge or consent of the data subjects.
“ProCare Health has been storing [PII] including names, addresses, financial information, clinical data and medication histories in a database called ‘Clinical Intelligence System,'” wrote four healthcare companies in a letter Tuesday to New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner, obtained by the New Zealand Herald.
The four – HealthLink, Medtech Global, myPractice and Best Practice Software New Zealand – claim that up to 800,000 patients’ medical data is at risk, though they acknowledged that they didn’t know the full extent of the data collection.
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