IT mistake erases 11 years of viewing history for hospitals’ maternity records
The English hospitals recovered patient care data only.
The English hospitals recovered patient care data only.
The short version
- A “human error” in the IT department led to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) losing data from maternity records over an 11-year span.
- The data loss occurred on August 18, the English hospitals announced in a blog post on Monday spotted by The Register .
- A setting that should have been changed before the process was run was missed.
What happened
As a result, the process was carried out on a maternity database instead of the radiotherapy database, causing the maternity records database to be overwritten. The overwritten database held data from NUH’s previous maternity database, which included maternity records for women and babies who received care from NUH from September 2011 to November 2022.
Why it matters
NUH has been unable to retrieve some of the data, the blog said: … we have not been able to restore the complete history showing who viewed maternity records during this period.
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