Eric Frazier reports: An HIV-positive Union County woman let a drug company take pictures of her for an HIV patients’ magazine, but was shocked to later find the pictures and details about her situation had been published on the Internet – without her permission, she says. The woman filed suit in federal court in Charlotte…
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Missing records on stolen laptop from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Unencrypted. Employee’s car. Pardon me while I spit. Peggy O’Farrell reports (emphasis added by me): Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is beefing up its computer security after a laptop computer containing more than 61,000 patient records was stolen. The laptop was stolen from a hospital employee’s personal vehicle while it was parked outside the employee’s…
Missing records on stolen laptop from Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Peggy O’Farrell reports: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is beefing up its computer security after a laptop computer containing more than 61,000 patient records was stolen. The laptop was stolen from a hospital employee’s personal vehicle while it was parked outside the employee’s home in late March. Cincinnati police were notified of the theft. The…
IN: Clinic owner filing suit against doctor-registration law
Niki Kelly reports: Dr. Ulrich George Klopfer – owner of abortion clinic Fort Wayne Women’s Health – is filing suit Friday against a county ordinance that imposes stringent new requirements on out-of-town doctors who practice in Allen County. […] The suit said under the ordinance, doctors also must allow unjustified and unlimited review of their…
Medical records not as private as they may first appear under human rights law
Adam Wagner reports: A dentist has been ordered to hand over his patients’ medical records to a court in order to help his regulator prosecute him for misconduct. The case raises interesting questions of when the courts can override patient confidentiality which would otherwise be protected by the Human Rights Act. When health professionals are…
Tulsa woman pleads guilty in identity theft case
David Harper reports the follow-up to a case previously covered here last month: A Tulsa woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to participating in a conspiracy in which personal identifying information was taken from St. Francis Hospital’s computer system and used as part of a scheme involving fraudulent credit cards and stolen mail. Teresa R. Browning, 36,…