David Quinlan reports: […] In the course of our four month investigation, we uncovered bags full of private patient information recklessly discarded in the trash right outside pharmacies and doctor’s offices. We even found syringes, urine samples, social security numbers and someone’s STD test results. Read more on KIRO 7
Category: Health Data
TX: Wanted man found with stolen personal information
Lacie Morrison reports: While serving warrants on a Mineral Wells resident, law enforcement officers recently recovered identifying information on more than 200 people apparently stolen from a medical records storage facility. […] The paperwork that was discovered with him, however, added an additional charge to the list. According to Mercer, the papers contained information on…
Hospital fires up to 6 for accessing Pressly's files
Jacob Quinn Sanders reports: St. Vincent Health System fired as many as six employees last month for improperly accessing the records of Little Rock morning television anchor Anne Pressly while she was a patient at the company’s main hospital, the chief executive confirmed Wednesday morning. […] Banko declined to name the jobs the employees held….
Former Pa. nursing aide pleas guilty to ID theft
A former nurses assistant has admitted stealing the personal information of a 75-year-old patient from a suburban Philadelphia nursing home. Police say 28-year-old Jennifer Antonelli of Conshohocken stole a check from the patient’s room and used it to open accounts on the Internet and pay her and her boyfriend’s personal bills in 2007. […] At…
ME: Stolen Medical Files
Police are trying to figure out how someone stole files from the Downeast Community Hospital in Machias… They washed ashore in a river in Pembroke last week. Hospital officials say they had no idea the files were even missing, until they were contacted by a police officer. Read more on WABI-TV
MO: Former St. John's Employee Accused of Invasion of Privacy
Chris Grogan reports: When you go to a hospital facility, you expect your privacy will be protected. Yet for some women and children in the Ozarks, a hidden camera stole that right to privacy. On Friday, KOLR/KSFX confirmed a former St. John’s employee was fired due to these invasion of privacy allegations. Investigators say he…