Second hospital in records scandal

A SECOND major facility has become embroiled in the Tallaght Hospital patient records crisis, after admitting it has used the same private transcription firm at the centre of the controversy since 2005.

The Irish Examiner has learned that the Mercy University Hospital (MUH) in Cork has been using the UScribe online transcription company for six years.

The firm is currently at the centre of a garda and Data Protection Commissioner investigation over concerns that patient information at Tallaght Hospital was accessed without permission since 2004, a claim Tallaght initially denied.