In most cases, I’d want a medical center to discipline or terminate an employee who snooped in a patient’s records. But here’s an unusual case where a medical center improperly fired an employee who had been authorized by the patient – who was both an employee and her ex-spouse – to look at his records….
Category: Health Data
GA: 911 dispatcher fired for sharing caller’s personal information on Facebook
Dan Kennedy reports: A Catoosa County 911 dispatcher was fired Friday morning for sharing on Facebook the private information of at least one person who called 911. Holly Dowis was terminated Friday following an internal investigation into her conduct while on the job. A Channel 3 investigation found Dowis sent a screenshot to Facebook friends…
Aide To Stephen McNeil, Nova Scotia Premier, Broke Privacy Laws: Report
Michael Tutton and Michael MacDonald report: The office of Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil broke privacy laws when chief of staff Kirby McVicar publicly released sensitive medical information about a former cabinet minister, the province’s privacy commissioner says. McVicar resigned Nov. 24 after stating in several media interviews that Andrew Younger had a brain tumour…
Stolen Oregon Health & Science University hard drive contained babies’ protected health information
Data breach incident December 2015 involving stolen OHSU hard drive 02/10/16 Portland, Ore. On December 6, 2015, an OHSU research student’s car was broken into and a hard drive was stolen. The hard drive may have contained health information about Neonatal Intensive Care Unit patients admitted to the unit in 2013 who were enrolled in a…
GA: Veteran given 10 other patients’ records by Atlanta V.A. Medical Center
George Franco reports: A Vietnam veteran from Canton is upset after receiving his medical records, and those of ten other people from the V.A. Medical Center in DeKalb County. Ken Newton told FOX 5 he retrieved his medical files for his attorney in a possible lawsuit concerning Agent Orange. Ken Newton pulled out his medical…
Jackson Health: ‘Rogue’ employee suspected of stealing private patient information
Daniel Chang reports: A ‘rogue’ employee at Miami-Dade’s public hospital network, Jackson Health System, was placed on administrative leave for suspicion of stealing reams of private patient information over the last five years in a scheme that may have compromised more than 24,000 records, according to hospital officials. Evelina Reid, a hospital unit secretary and…