Elizabeth Simpson reports: In a rare prosecution of a possible health privacy violation, a federal grand jury has indicted a Suffolk psychiatrist on charges he disclosed personal medical information. Dr. Richard Kaye, 62, a former medical director of the psychiatric unit at Sentara Obici Hospital in Suffolk, was indicted in U.S. District Court in Norfolk…
Category: Health Data
UK: Hospital patients' details lost or stolen 1,000 times in three years
Sophie Goodchild reports: London hospitals were responsible for nearly 1,000 cases involving the theft or loss of confidential patient details over the past three years, figures show today. They include medical notes left in a bin near a busy ward, the theft of a doctor’s laptop containing patient names and addresses and the loss of…
(follow-up) FL: Holy Cross Hospital ID theft ring members plead guilty and are sentenced
Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Henry Gutierrez, Special Agent in Charge, United States Postal Inspection Service, announced yesterday’s sentencing of Jimmy Lee Theodore, 27, of North Miami, following his plea of guilty to charges of wire fraud, unauthorized use of an access device (debit card), and aggravated identity…
2 fired at University of Iowa Hospitals for peeking at records
Clark Kauffman reports: The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics has fired a medical assistant for allegedly violating patient privacy by reporting a colleague’s suspected patient-privacy violations. If you read the details in the Des Moines Register, though, the case seems a bit tricky – the employee did admit to looking over a colleague’s shoulder,…
Tables Turn for Dentist Who Shared Patient Info
Tim Hull has more on a court decision in California mentioned last week on this blog: Federal medical-privacy laws do not preempt California’s own rules against doctors disclosing patient information to debt collectors, the state Supreme Court ruled. The unanimous court revived Robert Brown’s longtime crusade to hold dentist Rolf Reinholds accountable under California’s Confidentiality…
Stolen Foothills Nephrology laptop contained info on 1280 patients
When I saw “Spartanburg” in the news story, I thought this was an update on the Spartanburg Regional Medical Center breach reported on this blog previously, but the SRMC breach occurred March 28, and this incident occurred in April: GoUpstate.com reports A laptop stolen from a Foothills Nephrology employee’s vehicle in late April contained patient…