Here’s your must-read today on LabMD’s challenge to the FTC by Gus Hurwitz, who, like this blogger, has been criticizing the FTC’s over-zealous enforcement for the past three years. Unlike this blogger, however, Gus is actually a lawyer. 🙂 When LabMD prevails in the Eleventh Circuit, as I am hopeful they will, I will talk to Gus…
Category: Health Data
AU: Kingston Council emails out personal details of more than 900 people
Sam Bidey reports: Kingston Council will appoint an independent investigator after an email slip up that saw the personal details of more than 2000 people released. The council sent out the bulk email on Wednesday to more than 900 maternal and child health care clients asking them to take part in an online survey, but a…
NY: KinetoRehab Physical Therapy notifies patients of laptop theft
A physical therapy clinic in New York is notifying more than 650 patients after a laptop with protected health information was stolen. KinetoRehab Physical Therapy, PLLC learned of the theft on September 16, and although there was security footage showing the thief, police have not apprehended the thief nor recovered the laptop. “Patients who were seen…
HCMC Employee Sentenced for Fraudulently Using Patients’ Credit Cards
ABC5 reports: A Hennepin County Medical Center employee who pleaded guilty to fraudulently using patients’ credit cards was sentenced Monday. Thirty-five-year-old Elizabeth Tavarez of Fridley pleaded guilty in September to one count of identity theft. On Monday, she received a stay of imposition and will be on probation for three years. She will also have…
AU: Personal details of thousands of residents revealed by Melbourne council in data breach
ABC reports: A local council in Melbourne’s south-east is embroiled in a privacy breach, after the personal details of more than 2,000 residents were accidentally distributed to the public. A survey was emailed to 952 clients of the City of Kingston Maternal and Child Health Service on Wednesday, but there was an excel spreadsheet attached…
Miami-Dade County, Florida, Man Charged With Conspiracy To Commit Health Care Fraud
Here’s a case of insurance info theft to fuel a fraud scheme: NEWARK, N.J. – A Florida man has been charged in connection with his role in establishing fake medical facilities in New Jersey and billing insurance companies for services that were never performed, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Eduardo Arango Chong, 21, of Hialeah,…