Steve Green reports: The fallout continued Friday over the Sun’s disclosure in November that confidential patient information was being leaked from University Medical Center. A lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed in District Court in Clark County against UMC and the man indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the patient privacy scandal….
Category: Health Data
Almost Five Years in Prison for Pharmacy Owner Slash Identity Thief
Lucian Constantin reports: A pharmacy owner from Maryland was sentenced to 57 months in prison for misusing her customers’ personal information and selling mislabeled meds. The identity thief filed fake reimbursement claims for inexistent prescription refills in the name of other patients. According to authorities, Pamela Arrey, 49, owned two pharmacies in Baltimore, operating under…
Hospitals sued over HIV diagnosis
Jane Chen reports: Two hospitals in Xi’an City, capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, have been sued for allegedly wrongly diagnosing a 70-year-old woman as HIV positive and publishing her details online. The woman surnamed Cao yesterday handed in her lawsuit to Xishan District People’s Court in her hometown in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s…
And so it starts: Blumenthal Investigating Wellpoint Security Breach
From the CTWatchdog: Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating a massive security breach that allegedly compromised private financial and health information on nearly a half million WellPoint consumers, including thousands in Connecticut. In a letter to WellPoint Inc., Blumenthal has requested detailed information about how the breach occurred, what steps have been taken to…
WellPoint: 940 customers’ records may have been accessed
Reuters reports on the WellPoint breach that’s in the news this week: […] The company believes that the security glitch was exploited to access information on 940 insurance applications. Separately, unauthorized viewers accessed spreadsheets that “in rare cases” contained Social Security numbers, Sanders said. WellPoint is doing forensic work to identify the applicants whose data…
AU: Patients’ privacy put under threat
Anna Caldwell reports: The private details of Queensland Health patients are at risk of being lost or stolen and there are inadequate plans to deal with a major security breach. But the troubled department is racing to implement computerised medical records. The Auditor-General’s report into information systems governance and control has identified gaps in protocol…