WWBT reports: Federal authorities have launched an investigation concerning Republican State Senate candidate Dr. Siobhan Dunnavant, after a complaint alleged the Henrico doctor used her private patient information to solicit contributions, volunteers and votes. The investigation is being led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights. The Department’s regional…
Category: Health Data
NY: Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center Data Breach Announced
HIPAA Journal reports: The New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) has sent breach notification letters to 1,581 patients of its Brooklyn Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, after a laptop computer was discovered to have been stolen. The laptop computer was password protected, but data stored on its hard drive had not been encrypted. As…
NV: Lab Tech Charged With Stealing Patient Information And Using It To Apply For Credit Cards
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – A local woman who worked as a laboratory technician at an unnamed Las Vegas pediatric cardiology practice has been indicted by the federal grand jury on charges that she unlawfully obtained the personal identifying information of a patient and used it to apply for credit cards without the patient’s knowledge, announced…
National University Hospital of Iceland (Landspítali) sued over privacy breach
The Iceland Monitor reports: A Vietnamese national previously denied residence in Iceland owing to suspicions that her marriage was a sham will now be allowed to stay. Controversy has emerged over how the Directorate of Immigration received the information about the couple on which the previous decision to deny residence was based. According to the…
NV: Sunrise Hospital employees fired for violating Lamar Odom’s privacy- TMZ sources
TMZ reports: Lamar Odom was betrayed by several staffers at Sunrise Hospital in Vegas, and we’ve learned they’ve been summarily fired. We’re told the workers were all trying to sneak a photo of Lamar as he fought for his life inside the hospital. Our sources say some of them tried to access his medical records, in violation…
SC: Employee fired after Bon Secours St. Francis Health System data breach discovered
Liv Osby reports: An employee at Bon Secours St. Francis Health System has been terminated after hospital officials discovered that she had inappropriately accessed personal patient information. Hospital employees began reporting in July that their insurers had recorded unpaid balances and charges for a prescription cream, officials said in a statement. An investigation concluded on…