A nurse from Staten Island, New York has been charged with stealing the identity information of 80 patients at South Shore Physicians, P.C., the medical practice where she was employed between 2004 and 2012. Read more on NY Post.
Category: Health Data
Report: Former Monroeville police chief Cole should have acted (UPDATED)
I’ve previously covered a situation involving Monroeville’s 911 dispatch system sharing emergency call information with parties who had no legitimate need to be informed. There’s now an update to the case, although the case is still open. Kyle Lawson reports: An investigator hired by Monroeville determined that former Police Chief Doug Cole should have acted…
Update: South Miami Hospital insider breach
Betty Cole, a South Miami Hospital who stole 800 patients’ information for a tax refund fraud ring, pleaded guilty yesterday. Additional background on this case can be found on this blog here and here. As of today’s date, it would appear that HHS’s investigation of the incident has not been closed.
Six fired from Cedars-Sinai over patient privacy breaches
Anna Gorman and Abby Sewell report that five employees and a student research assistant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have been fired for inappropriately accessing 14 medical records in a one-week period last month. Four were employees of community physicians who have medical staff privileges at the hospital, one was a medical assistant employed by Cedars-Sinai, and…
Digging in their heels: Wyndham and LabMD challenge FTC’s authority in data security cases
Cross-posted from PHIprivacy.net: Adam Greenberg reports on two cases where businesses have challenged the FTC’s authority in data security cases. Although Wyndham’s challenge has been discussed in detail on DataBreaches.net (see these posts), I haven’t really described the LabMD case until now. In the LabMD case, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reported last year: The federal agency…
ICO fines NHS Surrey for failing to check the destruction of old computers
From the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued NHS Surrey with a monetary penalty of £200,000 after more than 3,000 patient records were found on a second hand computer bought through an online auction site. The sensitive information was inadvertently left on the computer and sold by a data destruction company employed…