Canadian Press reports: The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority says it will be contacting hundreds of patients in the coming weeks after a nurse inappropriately accessed their personal health information. The authority says in a release that the nurse, who had access to the emergency department information system for work at one site, inappropriately searched information…
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GoAir sues former MD over data theft
Budget airline GoAir has filed a suit against its former CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, accusing him of data theft. Prock-Schauer, who joined GoAir rival IndiGo as its Chief Operating Officer starting February 1, was sued by GoAir in the Bombay High Court on February 13. The next hearing is expected in June. The court documents show…
Palos Heights doctor indicted for insurance fraud; misused patient info
Mike Nolan reports: A suburban physician was indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly pocketing nearly $1 million in payments from Medicare and a private insurer for nonexistent treatment, the U.S. attorney in Chicago announced Friday. The 12-count indictment against Pranav Patel, owner of Palos Medical Care in Palos Heights, alleges he submitted fraudulent claims…
MS: Former Hospital Employee Charged for Stealing from Patient
A former employee at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson was arrested Wednesday for stealing money and banking information from a patient, announced Attorney General Jim Hood. Shaniqua Kiera Jenkins, 27, of Jackson, was arrested by investigators with the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control following an indictment by a Hinds County grand jury on one count…
NL: Hospital reprimands 85 staff for peeking at celebrity’s medical files
DutchNews.nl reports: The Haga hospital in The Hague has given 85 members of staff an official warning for looking at the medical files of a television celebrity who was hospitalised after a suicide attempt. Samantha de Jong, better known as Barbie, was admitted to hospital in January after trying to kill herself. She had hardly…
Three former Flint cops sold personal info of crash victims, feds claim
Dominic Adams reports: Three former Flint police officers sold stolen police reports that included the personal information of crash victims, which eventually wound up in the hands of doctors, chiropractors and personal injury lawyers, according to a recently filed federal indictment. More than 600 internal crash reports were stolen from the Flint Police Department and…