Donovan Vincent reports: Teresa Lawrence is sick of all the problems she’s had with her Ontario health card. Since October, the Toronto woman has had the card cancelled several times in an apparent case of mistaken identity. Each time there was a mix-up she was later assured the problem had been rectified. […] The cards…
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The Medical Center at Bowling Green Notifies Patients of Breach of Protected Health Information
From their press release: The Medical Center is currently notifying 5,418 patients of a breach of personal protected health information. The breach involves the theft of computer equipment from The Medical Center’s Mammography Suite containing information on patients who underwent bone density testing at The Medical Center between 1997 and 2009. We have no reason…
The Medical Center at Bowling Green Notifies Patients of Breach of Protected Health Information
From their press release: The Medical Center is currently notifying 5,418 patients of a breach of personal protected health information. The breach involves the theft of computer equipment from The Medical Center’s Mammography Suite containing information on patients who underwent bone density testing at The Medical Center between 1997 and 2009. We have no reason…
Man indicted in probe of UMC hospital privacy leak
Marshall Allen reports on the latest development in a UMC breach discussed on this site in the past: A man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in an alleged conspiracy to pay a University Medical Center employee for private information about traffic accident victims that was used to drum up clients. The indictment…
(follow-up) UCLA Researcher Gets Jail for Snooping into Celebrity Medical Records
If memory serves, employees of the State Department who snooped into celebrity passports got probation. Here’s a case where celebrity snooping — of medical records — actually resulted in prison, even though the data were not otherwise misused or sold: A former UCLA School of Medicine researcher was sentenced to four months in federal prison…
(follow-up) UCLA Researcher Gets Jail for Snooping into Celebrity Medical Records
A former UCLA School of Medicine researcher was sentenced to four months in federal prison for illegally snooping into the confidential private records of celebrities, high-profile patients and co-workers. 48 year old Huping Zhou pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles in January to four misdemeanor counts of violating federal privacy provisions….