Hospital record firm under probe ‘sold twice’

THE Philippines-based company at the centre of the Irish hospital records security breach changed ownership twice during the period under police investigation, without informing its clients.

The Data Protection Commissioner has confirmed ownership of UScribe changed hands twice between 2009 and this year.

However, despite this, a total of 61 hospitals and individual doctors in Ireland whose patient records were typed up by this company were not told of the management alterations.