VOCM reports: The trial for a nurse accused of breaching patient privacy regulations will continue in September. Colleen Stamp, charged under her former surname Weeks, was once employed by Eastern Health as a triage nurse in the Health Sciences Emergency Department. Stamp was fired in 2012 after being accused of illegally accessing patients’ records. Today…
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Hollywood Medical Assistant Pleads Guilty To Identity Theft
CBS reports: A Hollywood medical assistant has pleaded guilty to two identity theft charges. La Toya Yvette Tillman, 33, used her position at Gastroenterology Consultants in Hollywood to access the Memorial Healthcare System database through her computer at work to steal patient identities, including names, dates of birth, and social security numbers, so that she…
Former Tufts Health Plan employee pleads guilty to data theft
An update to the breach previously noted in April. Now we know it was an insider breach. Priyanka Dayal McCluskey reports: A former employee of Tufts Health Plan pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to stealing thousands of patients’ personal information in a scheme to collect fraudulent Social Security benefits and tax refunds, authorities said….
With FTC v. LabMD stalled, FTC tries to move the hearing forward
For those following FTC. v. LabMD, here’s a small update. The FTC’s administrative hearing against LabMD came to a screeching halt at the end of May when the House Oversight Committee indicated that it was investigating whether the FTC had based its case against LabMD on erroneous or inaccurate information provided by Tiversa. In the middle…
Media spotlight without facts makes mHealth privacy a tougher task
Senator Schumer got a lot of positive media coverage for asking the FTC to investigate whether fitness apps are selling personal information. But in naming FitBit, Schumer may have pointed the finger at a company that does not sell personal information. Judy Mottl writes: …. The lawmaker, Chuck Schumer (D), is obviously acting in best faith…
The Question Doctors Can't Ask
I’ve blogged a number of times about a Florida law that prohibits doctors from asking patients about guns in the home absent a specific concern. I’m already on record that I think this is an unconstitutional infringement on the First Amendment rights of doctors and that states should not be able to sidestep our ability…