Michael Standaert reports: Hong Kong’s data protection authority concluded that a medical center and an insurance broker engaged in the “deceitful” collection and sale of the personal data of more than 360,000 people over a two-year period, according to an investigation report released April 9. Allan Chiang, Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data for the Hong Kong Special…
Category: Health Data
NZ: Privacy breach over Jesse Ryder's medical files
From Radio New Zealand, the bad news and the good news: Canterbury District Health Board has apologised for a privacy breach in which cricketer Jesse Ryder’s medical file was accessed by unauthorised hospital staff. Ryder was admitted to Christchurch Hospital on 28 March with a fractured skull and collapsed lung, following an attack outside a…
Florida Hospital Co. Sued Over Scheme To Sell Patient Info
Law360 reports: Adventist Health System/Sunbelt Inc. was slammed Tuesday by a class action in Florida federal court alleging it violated patients’ privacy rights by failing to prevent emergency room workers from selling access to the health care organization’s medical records database. The complaint in Faircloth v. Adventist Health System/Sunbelt, Inc. stems from the insider breach…
Medical, dental records found in church recycling dumpster
Here’s a report from Mar. 18 that I missed when it was first posted by WTHR in Indianapolis: Thousands of patient records found by our 13 Investigates team are now in the hands of state investigators. Late Tuesday afternoon, special agents with the attorney general’s office picked up boxes loaded with thousands of sensitive, personal…
Long Island Health Care Provider Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for $10 Million Medicare Fraud and HIPAA Identity Theft
An update to a case reported previously on this blog: Yesterday, Helene Michel, an owner and officer of Medical Solutions Management Inc. (“MSM”), was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison by United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York. Michel was convicted after a three-week jury…
UK: Torbay patients' medical records found on Dawlish road
This is happening too damned frequently. BBC reports that eight Torbay Hospital patients’ confidential medical records were found on a busy street in Devon. The records were in two courier bags found by a woman on the A379 yesterday afternoon. Both the Royal Devon and Exeter (RD&E) Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and South Devon Healthcare…