Category: Health Data

Henry K. Lee reports: A UCSF Medical Center employee has been charged in federal court with wire fraud for allegedly using the Social Security numbers of fellow workers to complete online health surveys so that he could receive hundreds of $100 vouchers. From January to April, Cam Giang of San Francisco used other UC employees’…

Adam D. Krauss reports on the latest development in this ongoing case: The former Wentworth-Douglass Hospital employee who two doctors said unlawfully altered patients’ records has filed court papers denying the claim and charging she lost her livelihood over the doctors’ false claims. Mary Lemieux, who worked at WDH for 14 years until being terminated…

Brian Jackson reports: Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner is putting pressure on businesses and doctors to practice better information and records management and stem the leaking of personally identifiable information. In a report released yesterday Ann Cavoukian calls on companies of all sizes to put in place best practices for information management. She also wants a fast…

A laptop containing the details of 1,100 patients and their retinal images has been stolen from a Cambridgeshire hospital. The computer was stolen from the Ophthalmology department at Peterborough District Hospital between 26 and 27 April. The hospital has publically revealed the theft after first informing the patients concerned. Their details were not encrypted or…

Jay Weaver reports: A husband-and-wife duo charged with running a racket to pilfer patient records from Jackson Memorial Hospital to sell to lawyers for injury claims tried to plead guilty Tuesday in Miami federal court. But U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard said she couldn’t accept their pleas because she didn’t think the prescribed punishment fit…