Category: Health Data

I missed this report when it first appeared on March 4.  Emory Bryan reports: Imagine finding a stack of someone’s medical records, with all their personal and private information. That’s what happened to a stack of records from Tulsa’s Saint Francis Hospital. The records showed up in Ponca City, and it might have gone unnoticed,…

There’s a scene in one episode of NCIS where grieving colleagues of a dead agent fantasize what she might be saying or doing.  In that episode, the now-dead Kate reaffirms her modesty and her concerns that others might see the tattoo on her “bum” or might see her nude on the autopsy table. It’s all…

Ellen Yan of Newsday reports on a disturbing case on Long Island that involves a former nurse’s aide at Woodhaven Care Center in Port Jefferson. David Rover, 25, has been charged criminally for allegedly using his cellphone to secretly photograph the feces-covered genitals of an elderly resident and  then sending the picture to a nursing student…

Here’s a sentencing follow-up on a case previously mentioned on this blog. It seems that a number of the victims were employees of, or clients of, Resources for Human Development Inc.  

Once again, information on a breach at Samaritan Hospital comes out late on a Friday. If letters went out Wednesday, why didn’t they issue a press release then? More details have emerged on the Samaritan Hospital breach discussed previously on this blog. Bob Gardinier of the Times Union reports: Two nurses are targets of the…

Julia Filip reports that a potential class action lawsuit has been filed by three former patients of Dr. Nikita Levy against the Johns Hopkins Health System dba The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, in Baltimore City Circuit Court. The lawsuit arises from disclosures that Dr. Levy was secretly recording and photographing his…