California health regulators have connected 14 more people affiliated with UCLA Medical Center, including four physicians, to the improper viewing of celebrity medical records, it was reported Tuesday. The latest evidence brings the number of current and former workers apparently implicated in the snooping scandal to 68, the Los Angeles Times reported. The additional violations…
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Dade City Nurse's Aid Charged In ID Theft Involving Patient
Lisa A. Davis of The Tampa Tribune reports: A 46-year-old nurse’s aid was arrested Friday by Dade City police, accused of stealing a patient’s identity to obtain credit cards. Marius Volcilla Cheatum “used her position” to get personal information from a resident at The Edwinola Retirement Community, 14325 Edwinola Way, and then was issued 10…
Woman, her ID now unknown, sought for prescription fraud
Police in Hampton are looking for a woman who they’d previously arrested for prescription fraud, only to discover after her release that the identification she provided was false. It turns out that the ID she provided belonged to a victim of identity theft. The department issued the following news release with details about the incident,…
Hospitals Face Tricky Patient Privacy Scenarios When Law Enforcement Officials Request Patient DNA
Reprinted from REPORT ON PATIENT PRIVACY, the industry’s most practical source of news on HIPAA patient privacy provisions. To catch the notorious “BTK” killer, police collected the DNA of more than 1,300 men. In the end, it was the DNA of just one person — a woman, his daughter — that led to the…
HHS adds enforcement data to HIPAA privacy compliance and enforcement web site
In response to continuing interest in HHS enforcement of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, the Office for Civil Rights today made available to the public additional information about these activities. OCR has added a new data section on its Compliance and Enforcement Web Site. The public can now access enhanced information about several aspects of OCR’s…
UK: Potential security flaw in NPfIT Choose and Book, the Sun reports
Tony Collins writes in ComputerWeekly: The Sun has reported on a potential security breach with the “Choose and Book” system – part of the NHS’s National Programme for IT [NPfIT] – at a GP practice at Essex. The paper has an editorial piece about the potential breach under the headline “Data Dunces”. The Sun reports…