Following a four-day jury trial in Baton Rouge, La., a federal jury convicted Angela Myers yesterday of wire fraud, making false claims, subscribing to false tax returns and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service announced. Based on the evidence presented at trial, Myers operated Angie’s Tax Service, a tax preparation business…
Category: Health Data
RQRHA did not adequately protect health information
Pamela Cowan reports: The Regina Qu’Appelle Regional Health Authority (RQRHA) failed to follow provisions of the Health Information Protection Act (HIPA) in a 2010 privacy breach, according to Saskatchewan’s Information and Privacy Commissioner. Gary Dickson’s office began an investigation into the Regina breach after 15 addressograph cards – blue cards attached to patients’ charts when…
$250,000 penalty issued to Lucile Packard Children's Hospital was an error – CDPH
A breach at Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital in 2010 generated a number of posts on this blog – especially after the hospital was reportedly fined $250,000 by California for a delay in notifying patients of the breach. I recently reported that the hospital had settled its appeal with the state and did not have…
HIPAA and state law privacy claims stand while medical malpractice claim falls
From the Michael H. Cohen Law Group: A federal court in Indiana rules that patient’s HIPAA and state privacy claims could stand, based on the allegation that a physician shared information about the patient’s medical condition with his employer. In Reed v. Rodarte, No. 2:11 CV 153 (N.D. Ind. Feb. 14, 2013), the court rejected the physician’s…
Patient Steals Other Patients’ Info
Paul Smith reports on an incident at a Lancaster, Pennsylvania medical practice: A patient at Crooked Oak Family Medicine stole a document containing personal information about some of the practice’s other patients on February 5, 2013. Read more on Fox43. A statement posted today on Lancaster General Health‘s web site says: A Crooked Oak Family…
Law firms gear up for class-action against Montfort over personal data loss
Derek Spalding reports that lawsuit over a lost USB drive breach is brewing: Two heavyweight lawfirms out of Windsor and Toronto promise to launch a class-action lawsuit as early as next week against Montfort Hospital for its role in losing the personal information of 25,000 patients. Representatives from Sutts, Strosberg LLP and Falconer Charney LLP…