Adam D. Krause continues to follow allegations of a breach that may not actually be a breach involving Wentworth-Douglass Hospital: The Office of the Attorney General has determined there is “insufficient evidence” to investigate a Wentworth-Douglass Hospital transcriptionist who was alleged to have improperly accessed records of hundreds of patients. Jim Boffetti, who heads the…
Category: Health Data
Security breach at Atlanta VA hospital under investigation
Craig Schneider has some more information on the breach at the Atlanta VA Medical Center: The U.S. Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General has launched a criminal investigation into a security breach of veterans’ medical information at the Atlanta Veterans Administration Medical Center, according to an internal document obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. […] In…
5 hospital workers get jobs back in privacy case
Chris Moran reports: Five of the 16 employees fired by the Harris County Hospital District in November after being accused of violating patient privacy laws have been reinstated. The firings were the fallout from October, when Dr. Stephanie Wuest, a first-year Baylor College of Medicine resident assigned to Ben Taub General Hospital, was shot in…
(update) Pathologists sue ex-WDH employee fired over privacy breach
Adam D. Krauss updates us on developments related to allegations concerning a breach at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital (previous news stories here): The former Wentworth-Douglass Hospital pathologists who claimed the hospital retaliated against them over a patient privacy have sued an ex-WDH employee who was fired over the matter. In paperwork filed today at Strafford County Superior…
TX: Would you like fries with your medical records?
James Muñoz reports: When a fast food worker found three folders with private information on three different people, he decided to call KENS 5. We tracked down the three men who were none too happy to find their personal information compromised. We contacted one of the medical offices named in the documents, a spokesperson said…
Class Action Suit Over Aetna’s Security Breach Is Dismissed
Shannon P. Duffy reports: Finding there was no more than speculative injury, a federal judge has dismissed a class action suit against Aetna Inc. filed in the wake of news that the insurer’s computer database may have been hacked and that personal data of up to 450,000 job applicants were potentially at risk. In Allison…