Category: Health Data

It seems it’s not just U.S. cosmetic surgeons getting into trouble over before/after images uploaded to the Internet that do not adequately protect patient privacy.  Here’s a news story by Clara Guibourg  in The Local in Sweden: A Stockholm-based plastic surgeon has been reported for uploading videos to YouTube, showing before, during and after footage of…

Here’s the latest on a case I’ve been following since it was first disclosed in February 2009. The Lake Elsinore – Wildomar Patch reports: A former doctor with a felony record for multiple acts of identity theft and forgery stemming from an addiction to painkillers was sentenced today to five years behind bars for violating…

Rachel Grunberger and Dena Feldman write: Earlier this month, the federal district court in Minnesota dismissed a lawsuit brought earlier this year by the Minnesota Attorney General (AG) against Accretive Health, Inc., a business associate of hospitals, after the parties reached a settlement.  In the lawsuit, which we previously discussed here, the Minnesota AG alleged that the company…

The same attorney who has filed lawsuits against Western Health Authority and Eastern Health Authority over their recent privacy breaches has now sued Central Health Authority, too. CBC reports: Shawna Thompson says her ex-husband’s wife inappropriately accessed her medical records, including lab test results and other confidential information that had been held at Central Health….

CBC News reports that one lawyer has filed potential class action lawsuits against both Western Health Authority and Eastern Health Authority in the wake of privacy breaches involving improper employee access or snooping in patients’ records: St. John’s lawyer Bob Buckingham is leading class action lawsuits against two health authorities. (CBC) Eastern Health disclosed in…

As I was looking for more media coverage on the Florida Hospital breach discussed earlier today, I was surprised to come across a news report from October 2011 that I had missed. I wasn’t surprised that I had missed the news story,  but I was surprised by what it claimed. WFTV, which has been all…