The Rock River Times reports: Elizabeth Schmidtke, 27, pled guilty to aggravated identity theft and was sentenced to four years in the Illinois Department of Corrections Dec. 16. In May 2011, City of Rockford detectives began an investigation into photocopied checks that were located in another state but belonged to patients at a local medical…
Category: Health Data
Senate Hearings Focus on Lack of HIPAA Enforcement, Final HITECH Rule
Rachel Grunberger writes: The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and Law recently held a hearing to discuss federal enforcement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, entitled “Your Health and Your Privacy: Protecting Health Information in a Digital World.” In…
TN: Woman Finds Bags Of Detailed Medical Records In A Dumpster
Adam Ghassemi reports: Last week, while unloading debris at the Sumner County Resource Authority a woman found a lot more than just trash. “It’s totally reckless,” said a Sumner County woman who doesn’t want her identity revealed. She says she hopes what she did protects the identities of countless others. “It’s just unbelievable what could…
Update: Stolen St. Charles laptop recovered
A laptop stolen from a St. Charles employee’s car in late October has been recovered. The laptop contained personal information from about 140 patients who had been in the emergency room at St. Charles Bend or Redmond. A forensic analysis indicated that someone had attempted to access the laptop but was unable to do so,…
[CORRECTED] Ca: Privacy breach class action certified against Durham Region Health
NOTE of Jan. 3, 2012: Please see the CORRECTION to this entry that appears in the Comments section. My apologies for linking to what appears to have been inaccurate information – Dissent. Alex Cameron and Sébastien Kwidzinski write: The Durham Region Health Decision In Rowlands v. Durham Region Health, the plaintiffs allege that a nurse employed…
Ca: PIPEDA Report of Findings #2011-004: Laurier Optical Improperly Discloses Client’s Personal Information
An individual who was seeking a refund from Laurier Optical because two pairs of prescription eyeglasses didn’t satisfy him, was shocked to discover the company had copied its written response to his request to 10 different parties. He complained to our Office that the optometry chain, which has locations in Ontario and Quebec, disclosed his…