Category: Health Data

Back in June 2012, the Department of Justice announced that Alci Bonannee had been arrested and charged with ID theft in a massive tax refund fraud scheme. At the time, they found evidence that over 1,000 fraudulent returns had been filed by Bonannee and her co-conspirators between January 2011 and June 6, 2012. This week, Bonannee was…

Evan Brown writes: Palleschi v. Cassano, — N.Y.S.2d —, 2013 WL 322573 (N.Y.A.D. 1 Dept. January 29, 2013) Petitioner — an emergency medical services supervisor and lieutenant in the New York Fire Department — admitted that he posted a picture to Facebook of a computer screen containing confidential and privileged information about a 911 caller’s…

More snoops fired. Tyler Kula reports: Hospital staff have reportedly been fired after a privacy breach at Bluewater Health. Multiple sources told The Observer Monday as many as 17 people were dismissed after non-clinical staff accessed patient information through a password-protected system — without authorization — earlier this month. Sources told The Observer that at…

The current issue of the British Medical Journal has an article by Clare Dyer on disciplinary proceedings involving a psychiatrist who discussed a patient’s case on a crowded train. The NHS trust that runs Broadmoor secure hospital can go ahead with disciplinary action against a consultant forensic psychiatrist who discussed a patient’s medical report with a…

Tara Bannow reports: About half of the more than 500 laptops issued to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics employees last summer did not have encryption software to protect sensitive information, a deputy state auditor said Monday. A state of Iowa auditor’s office report released Monday described how the lack of encryption software on some…