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,…
Category: Health Data
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…
Boulder Community Hospital involved in nurse ID theft case
Add Boulder Community Hospital to the Colorado hospitals whose patients had their information acquired and misused by a contract nurse. Jeffrey Wolf reports: The 9Wants to Know investigators have learned Cannon Tubb is also accused of rifling through patient records at Boulder Community Hospital. Tubb is awaiting extradition from Texas to face a 90-count felony…
Ca: LHSC probes confidentiality breach
Jonathan Sher reports: Confidential patient records with names, health card numbers and handwritten notes about treatments have been found exposed on the grounds around London’s Victoria Hospital, The Free Press has learned. The records were found in an area near the northwest corner of the grounds frequented by delivery trucks. According to a good Samaritan…
Local agency reports data breach of PASSPORT program info
Mansfield News Journal in Ohio reports: Area Agency on Aging serving several area counties said today that a laptop containing personal health information of thousands of clients was stolen two weeks ago from a vehicle. According to a press release from the Ohio District 5 office, the computer was assigned to a PASSPORT case manager and held…