A sub-contractor for medical transcription provider Global Transcription Services (GTS) has been identified as the source of a recent privacy breach, in which letters from specialists to referring GPs concerning hundreds of patients were discovered in a rubbish bin in Sydney.
NSW Health has revealed that the incident mainly involved letters and progress reports about patients attending a number of public and private outpatient clinics last December, with 768 public patients involved and just over 700 pieces of correspondence relating to private patients.
