A former UCLA Medical Center employee has pleaded not guilty to charges that she sold information from Farrah Fawcett’s medical records to a celebrity gossip tabloid. U.S. attorney’s spokesman Thom Mrozek says Lawanda Jackson entered the plea at her arraignment Monday in U.S. District Court. Source – Associated Press
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UK: Medical records found dumped near canal in Barrowford
Simone Yates reports: AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after hundreds of personal medical documents were found dumped beside a canal between Barrowford and Foulridge. The confidential documents featured information about patients from across East Lancashire including names, addresses and whether they had HIV, syphillis or had suffered from a heart attack. Pendle Denture Centre, in…
Portland VA hospital mistakenly posts vets' personal data online
Michael Milstein reports: Personal information, including some Social Security numbers, of about 1,600 patients at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Portland was inadvertently posted on a public Web site, Portland VA officials said Saturday. The breach also involved patient information from other VA hospitals around the country, but Portland VA spokesman Mike McAleer…
20 Hospital Workers Accused Of Violating Collier's Privacy Fired
Twenty hospital workers — nurses, admissions workers and patient relations staff — lost their jobs this week, accused of breaking federal privacy rules by accessing the medical records of the Jaguars’ Richard Collier. Two weeks after Collier — who was shot 14 times — was well enough to be discharged from Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center, 20…
Tally of improperly accessed UCLA patient records tops 1,000
Rong-Gong Lin II reports: The number of patients whose hospital records were improperly accessed by employees at the UCLA Hospital System has topped 1,000, state officials said Wednesday. Kathleen Billingsley, director of the California Department of Public Health’s Center for Healthcare Quality, said the records of 1,041 patients have been breached, up from 939 in…
CA: State ends review of privacy breaches at hospitals
SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER reports: The state has ended its investigation into privacy breaches at UCLA hospitals, where celebrities such as Britney Spears and Farrah Fawcett had their medical records illegally accessed by employees. Six state reports were released on the matter over the last several months—the last one Wednesday—detailing a widespread practice of workers taking…