One of the larger breaches in 2014 involved a Los Angeles County contractor, Sutherland Healthcare Solutions. The theft of some of their computer equipment with unencrypted patient identity and clinical information was disclosed in March 2014, and within days, a potential class action lawsuit had been filed. The breach impacted approximately 3420,000 patients of the Los Angeles…
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Privacy concerns over Healthcare.gov prompt reversal
Jack Gillum and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar report: Bowing to privacy concerns, the Obama administration reversed itself Friday, scaling back the release of consumers’ personal information from the government’s health insurance website to private companies with a commercial interest in the data. The administration made the changes to HealthCare.gov after The Associated Press reported earlier this week that…
St. Peter's Health Partners warns of possible data breach (Update2)
Claire Hughes reports: St. Peter’s Health Partners is warning of a possible data breach in its email system, following the theft of a manager’s cellphone. Emails on the cellphone may have included patient information related to appointment schedules at St. Peter’s Health Partner’s Medical Associates, a large doctors’ practice. Read more on TimesUnion.com Updates: Over 5,000 patients have been notified….
Divorcing parents promise not to write books ‘dealing with’ (moderately famous) autistic son
This might typically be posted over on PogoWasRight.org, but because it concerns mental health issues, I decided to post it here. Eugene Volokh writes: When should such promises be enforced via an injunction — or when should they lead at least to an injunction against further promotion of a book once it’s already published? A…
Ca: Six month limitation blocks prosecution over breached abortion records at Peterborough hospital
Sarah Frank reports: Although acting privacy commissioner Brian Beamish deems breached abortion files at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre worthy of prosecution, too much time has passed to press charges. Read more on MyKawartha.com. The breach was actually reported to the commissioner’s office in 2011, but at the time, they weren’t as interested in prosecution…
Former Macon nursing home worker sentenced in identity fraud scheme
There’s an update to a breach noted previously on this blog. Amy Leigh Womack reports: A former nursing home worker was sentenced to five years on probation Thursday after she pleaded guilty in an identity fraud scheme involving stolen patient information. Raquel Hogan, who formerly worked as a certified nursing assistant at Medical Management Health and…