Natalie Tendall When you go to the hospital you expect your private health information to be kept private. But 2 NEWS Investigates uncovered a lawsuit by two local women that alleges they repeatedly had the privacy of their health information violated by employees at Kettering Health Network, also known as Kettering Adventist Healthcare. Read more…
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Ca: Trial for Nurse Accused in Privacy Breach will Continue in September
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…
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…