Kevin Ma reports: An emergency room doctor from St. Albert has been suspended for at least a month because she illegally tapped into restricted medical files. The College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta announced this week that it had found Deanne “Dee” Gayle Watrich, an emergency room doctor and a St. Albert resident, to…
Category: Health Data
Two HIPAA breaches involving Mid America Health that flew under the media radar
Back on January 3, I blogged about three breach reports I had stumbled across in December. One of them involved an undated substitute notice from Mid America Health concerning a stolen laptop. I had e-mailed Mid America Health in December to ask when the breach had occurred and for more details, but they did not respond to my inquiry…
Patient records found outside an evicted dental clinic in Detroit
Here we go again: After Kelly Plaza Dental Clinic in Detroit received an eviction notice shutting them down, someone cleaned out the premises. Thrown in a dumpster were boxes with patients’ unshredded records that included Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, bank account information, and of course, dental records. Read more on ClickOnDetroit.
2nd Cir Certified Question Raises Medical Privacy Concerns
Robyn Hagan Cain writes: Does the unauthorized disclosure of confidential medical information by a clinic’s employee create a right of action for breach of a fiduciary duty against the clinic under New York law? Does it matter if the blabbermouth employee acted outside the scope of her employment? If she was not the plaintiff’s treating…
Class action lawsuit filed against hospital, former staff and Fleming College
A lawsuit has been filed in Canada in the wake of a snooping breach reported last year: A multi-million dollar lawsuit has been filed against the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC), some of its former staff members and Fleming College. The lawsuit comes after 280 patient files at the hospital were breached. Information regarding the…
Update: HHS opens investigation into Monroeville 911 dispatch center for possible violations of privacy and security rules
Back in October, I commented on a complaint filed with HHS by the Monroeville, Pennsylvania Assistant Chief of Police. In August 2012, Chief Pascarella alleged that the town’s emergency dispatch service had been disclosing what should have been confidential information to his former boss, who, having retired, should no longer have been receiving copies…