Alison Diana reports: To combat “doctor shopping,” “pill mills,” and addiction to medications such as pain and anti-anxiety pills, many states have created databases that track the doctors who prescribe and patients who take these medications. Used by pharmacies and practices to ensure consumers aren’t seeing multiple physicians to get controlled substances, these databases also…
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Ca: AHS contacting nearly 250 patients after privacy breached
Reid Southwick reports: Alberta’s health authority is apologizing for a major privacy breach after a staffer at Alberta Children’s Hospital inappropriately accessed nearly 250 patient files over a 14-year period. Alberta Health Services noticed the breach during audits of two patient databases, finding the same staff member had accessed personal information of hundreds of patients,…
Ca: Judge expands Alberta health privacy laws in case where woman’s access to parents restricted
Karen Kleiss reports: In a precedent-setting decision, Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench has ruled the province’s Health Information Act protects any information broadly connected to a patient’s care, even if that information is about another person. The sweeping decision from Justice Thomas Wakeling last month overturned a ruling from Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, and…
Touchstone Medical Imaging reveals data breach
Dave Lewis reports: Touchstone Medical Imaging is a company that is based in Brentwood Tennessee. This is a medical firm that provides services such as MRI, CT scans, Ultrasound and Mammography. Today they announced that they suffered a data breach as the result of an open share that was exposed to the Internet. This shared…
Woman Billed For Imposter’s Psychiatric Services
Dave Savini reports on two cases that sound like medical identity theft. Here’s the first one: Lisa Voss of Chicago tells 2 Investigator Dave Savini [she was] billed more than $1,300 by Stroger Hospital. She believes there are likely more victims. According to medical records with her name on them, Voss was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Voss says…
Laptops With Patient Data Stolen From Gaffney Clinic
Mike Manzoni reports: Two laptops with private patient data were stolen from a Gaffney health care clinic Monday, police said. Investigators said the thief or thieves broke into Novant Health Gaffney Family Medical Care on Stuard Street overnight either late Sunday or Monday morning and stole the laptops from an office. Police said the health…