Category: Health Data

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…

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…

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…

On December 21, I linked to a newsletter discussing class certification of a lawsuit against Durham Region Health. Today, I received a polite comment from their counsel pointing out that the statements in the newsletter I had linked to were factually inaccurate. As a result, I have edited and corrected that blog entry, but wanted…

Susan Abram reports: Providence Holy Cross Medical Center officials are investigating an employee who allegedly posted a patient’s medical information on his Facebook page, apparently to make fun of the woman and her medical condition. According to a printout of the Facebook page obtained by the Daily News, the employee displayed a photo of a…

Joe Harris reports: A woman who was awarded $100,000 after a picture of her nude torso appeared in a newspaper article will get a chance to seek more money, the 8th Circuit ruled. Jane Doe sued three doctors and their plastic surgery business – but not the newspaper – after an April 2006 article in…