More snoops fired. Tyler Kula reports: Hospital staff have reportedly been fired after a privacy breach at Bluewater Health. Multiple sources told The Observer Monday as many as 17 people were dismissed after non-clinical staff accessed patient information through a password-protected system — without authorization — earlier this month. Sources told The Observer that at…
Author: Dissent
Docs 'n guns, Part 2: Psychiatrists, mental health advocates uneasy with gun policy prescriptions
Kevin Rector reports: Sitting around a broad table in a nondescript office in Reisterstown (Maryland) last week, more than a dozen mental health advocates, medical professionals and law enforcement officials stared tensely at one another. Nearly a month after the state-created task force issued a report outlining its findings on psychiatric patients’ access to firearms,…
Disciplinary panel can proceed against doctor who discussed patient’s details on train, say judges
The current issue of the British Medical Journal has an article by Clare Dyer on disciplinary proceedings involving a psychiatrist who discussed a patient’s case on a crowded train. The NHS trust that runs Broadmoor secure hospital can go ahead with disciplinary action against a consultant forensic psychiatrist who discussed a patient’s medical report with a…
NZ: 543 ACC privacy breaches since last year
Now what were folks saying about human error being the single biggest cause of breaches? And did anyone say how much human error was “acceptable” or to be expected? When does the public say, “This is too much?” Brook Sabin reports: The ACC [Accident Compensation Corporation] is still breaching people’s privacy at an average rate…
Alabama Employee Indicted for Providing Names to a Million Dollar Identity Theft Scheme
A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., returned an indictment charging Lea’Tice Phillips for conspiring to file false tax returns using stolen identities, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. The 37 count indictment charges Phillips with conspiracy to file false claims, wire fraud, computer fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to…
Antioch district working to fix inadvertent disclosure of employee data
Paul Burgarino reports: District officials have been working to fix an inadvertent disclosure of some personal employee information that spread last week via email. While a former Antioch Unified employee was trying to pass on information about a replacement’s responsibilities at the end of the workday Jan. 18, the employee attached a file to an…