Schneck Medical Center in Seymour, Indiana reports that 3,000 patients’ names were inadvertently exposed online after an employee gave a presentation elsewhere and the presentation was subsequently uploaded to that institution’s web site. Anyone delving into the files could have uncovered patients’ names. Other personal info, such as Social Security numbers, medical and payment information…
Category: Health Data
Hong Kong DPA Finds Companies Violated Direct Marketing Rules
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…
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…