Gary Harper writes for 3 On Your Side: Junk faxes are always a nuisance, but wait until you hear what one Gilbert couple is receiving on their fax machine. This is kind of a weird one because the faxes are coming from an insurance company. What kind of faxes are we talking about? Well, how…
Category: Health Data
25 national organizations urge privacy in e-prescribing
A press release I just received by e-mail: Twenty five organizations, including the ACLU, the Republican Liberty Caucus, the American Council for the Blind and the National Association of Social Workers joined forces via the Coalition for Patient Privacy to urge Congress to include privacy protections in any federal electronic prescribing legislation. Read the Coalition’s…
14 More Workers, Including Doctors, Named In UCLA Snooping
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…
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…