Murray Brewster reports: More veterans are coming forward with claims their private medical information was distributed or widely accessed by federal bureaucrats in what some say were attempts to smear reputations. At least three new cases came to light Tuesday, widening a privacy scandal triggered by veterans activist Sean Bruyea who acquired hundred of pages…
Category: Health Data
UK: Hull man guilty of snooping on hundreds of medical records
John Oates reports the follow-up to a breach previously covered on this site. A Hull man has been given a suspended sentence for looking at hundreds of women’s medical records. Dale Trever, 22, was working for Hull Primary Care Trust as a “care data quality facilitator” when he accessed medical records of 413 female patients….
FL: People’s Personal Information Up for Bid at Hospital Auction
Chad Mira reports: An auction at the Gulf Pines Hospital in Port St. Joe has former employees worried about a HIPAA law violation and possibly even identity theft. One past employee says old files were still in the hospital, and people could have walked away with them after the auction last week. Employees are frustrated…
WDH records tampering trial will take place next year
Jennifer Keefe reports the latest legal development in a patient records breach that involves charges and counter-charges between two doctors, an office worker: It appears there won’t be a trial in the Wentworth-Douglass Hospital records tampering case until well into 2011. According to court documents recently filed at Strafford County Superior Court, a trial is…
FL: People's Personal Information Up for Bid at Hospital Auction
Chad Mira reports: An auction at the Gulf Pines Hospital in Port St. Joe has former employees worried about a HIPAA law violation and possibly even identity theft. One past employee says old files were still in the hospital, and people could have walked away with them after the auction last week. Employees are frustrated…
Michigan Abortion Centers Guilty of Violating HIPAA in Dumping Patient Records
Steven Ertelt reports the follow-up to an improper disposal of patient records breach covered previously on this site: The federal government has found three Michigan abortion businesses guilty of violating the HIPAA statutes as a result of their illegally dumping patient records in trash bins outside their facilities. Local pro-life advocates found the records in the…