Another defunct hospital left patient and employee records behind without adequate security. This time it’s St. Catherine Medical Center in Pennsylvania. Paging HHS to Aisle 4….
Category: Health Data
WestCoast Children's Clinic notifies patient after misdirected e-mail exposed personal and health information (updated and corrrected)
WestCoast Children’s Clinic is mailing letters to its patients parents of a patient after an e-mail error on November 20 resulted in referral documents containing the patient’s names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, and current health concerns being sent to an unauthorized recipient – a county social worker with the Alameda County Department of…
NZ: MidCentral District Health Board's privacy breaches cause for serious concern
Talia Shadwell reports: A Palmerston North woman is accusing MidCentral District Health Board staff of a privacy breach, after she was mailed another mental health client’s file along with her own records. The health board is investigating Zelda McConachy’s claims that she has repeatedly received other mental health services clients’ confidential files mixed up with…
Rogue Advanced Data Processing employee accessed and disclosed patient info to others for tax refund fraud scheme (update2)
Advanced Data Processing (ADPI), handles billing for a number of ambulance services throughout the U.S. The Florida-headquartered firm notified the California Attorney General’s Office this week that on October 1, they discovered a rogue employee had been accessing and disclosing patient information to others who used the information to file fraudulent tax returns to obtain refunds. According…
Prime Healthcare Services fined $95,000 in privacy case
If you’ve been reading my blog for a few years, you’ll likely remember the case where Shasta Regional Medical Center and Prime Healthcare Services disclosed a patient’s records to the media, claiming that because the patient had talked to the media, she had waived confidentiality. The case was initially reported in January, and I posted an update in May…
Another case of snooping prosecuted
I’ve covered cases of snooping employees a number of times on this blog, but for a quick overview of some of the cases that made the media in the U.S., here’s an article by William H. Maruca of Fox Rothschild on Lexology.com,