Cindy E. Harnett reports: Two years after it was alleged that a Victoria urologist photographed an unconscious obese male patient and sent the picture to others for non-medical reasons, the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons has yet to rule on the case. The privacy breach is alleged to have occurred on July 4, 2013,…
Category: Health Data
IN: Defunct “My Fast Lab” leaves patient information exposed
Giles Bruce reports yet another instance where a firm or covered entity closes and confidential data is just dumped, unshredded. I wish HHS and/or FTC would go after more of these situations and impose some serious consequences to send a clear message that this will not be tolerated. Medical tests. Copies of Social Security cards,…
Abandoned autopsy lab in Tobolsk, Siberia still has medical records, human remains
This is a somewhat bizarre – and disturbing – breach involving medical records and human remains. Police have launched an investigation after an abandoned autopsy laboratory containing mummified baby remains was discovered in a park. The gruesome facility in Tobolsk, which may have been used as recently three years ago, was stumbled across by a…
OK: Saint Francis Hospital Gift Shop Acts to Block Payment Card Security Incident
Saint Francis Health System (“Saint Francis”) takes seriously the privacy and confidentiality of the personal information provided to it by visitors to the Saint Francis Hospital gift shop. Regrettably, this notice is about an incident involving some of that information. On March 20, 2015, Saint Francis discovered that an unauthorized person remotely installed malware on the…
Healthcare Nonprofit Sues Whistleblowers for Confidentiality Breach
Brittany Malooly reports: A nationwide AIDS healthcare provider and several of its former employees are locked in a legal battle over who took more advantage of the patients. The former employees claim that the AIDS Healthcare Foundation used patients to defraud Medicaid and Medicare, while AHF claims its employees outed confidential patient information to the…
AR: Medical assistant pleads guilty to aggravated identity theft
Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced Wednesday that Mesha White, age 34, of Little Rock, appeared before United States District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright on June 3, 2015, and pled guilty to an indictment charging her with aggravated identity theft. In April 2014, a federal grand jury returned…