Encarnacion Pyle reports: Ohio State University Medical Center has notified 30 patients and 150 students that a hacker might have accessed their names, medical information and/or Social Security numbers. Officials said there is no indication that any personal information was taken or that the incident has resulted in identity theft, but they are providing 12…
Category: Health Data
Sg: Doctor fined, censured for spying at patients' records
I thought some readers might be interested in how privacy violations are handled in Singapore. From Channel News Asia: A doctor has been fined S$10,000 and censured for accessing the medical records of two patients who were not under his charge. 32-year old Dr Tre’gon Singh Randhawa has also given the Singapore Medical Council a…
Contractor hit with second class action suit over TRICARE data theft
Bob Brewin reports: TRICARE contractor Science Applications International Corp. was hit with a second class action lawsuit filed in a California state court seeking unspecified monetary damages related to the theft of computer tapes containing the records of 4.9 million health care beneficiaries. The latest suit seeks certification as a class action for all TRICARE beneficiaries in…
NV: Medical records found near dumpster
Loni Blandford reports about yet another discovery of medical records from a defunct practice or entity just dumped without shredding: From credit cards applications to patient’s name, addresses and even social security numbers. All that information was just sitting next to a dumpster in a parking lot near Buffalo Drive and Washington Avenue. […] There…
Former Ochsner Medical Center janitor pleads guilty to stealing patient information
Associated Press has a follow-up to a breach previously mentioned on this blog. A Westwego man who worked as a janitor at a New Orleans hospital and his girlfriend have pleaded guilty to charges they used stolen patient information for their personal gain. Federal prosecutors say 50-year-old Clyde Washington was working for Ochsner Medical Center…
Her case shows why healthcare privacy laws exist
Michael Hiltzik writes: Of all the personal information that you might want to keep private, your medical records are the most important. That’s why federal and state laws carry stiff penalties, up to and including jail time, for healthcare providers who let such data loose into the wild. So you should be aghast at how…