Lora Pabst reports: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, the state’s largest health insurer, accidentally published a customer’s personal medical information in a handbook prepared for 95,000 members of a popular health care plan, according to the woman’s attorney. The unnamed woman filed suit in Hennepin County District Court this week, accusing Blue Cross…
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AG's Office: 2nd WDH worker in records case acted in scope of her duties
Adam D. Krause continues to follow allegations of a breach that may not actually be a breach involving Wentworth-Douglass Hospital: The Office of the Attorney General has determined there is “insufficient evidence” to investigate a Wentworth-Douglass Hospital transcriptionist who was alleged to have improperly accessed records of hundreds of patients. Jim Boffetti, who heads the…
Security breach at Atlanta VA hospital under investigation
Craig Schneider has some more information on the breach at the Atlanta VA Medical Center: The U.S. Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General has launched a criminal investigation into a security breach of veterans’ medical information at the Atlanta Veterans Administration Medical Center, according to an internal document obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. […] In…
5 hospital workers get jobs back in privacy case
Chris Moran reports: Five of the 16 employees fired by the Harris County Hospital District in November after being accused of violating patient privacy laws have been reinstated. The firings were the fallout from October, when Dr. Stephanie Wuest, a first-year Baylor College of Medicine resident assigned to Ben Taub General Hospital, was shot in…
(update) Pathologists sue ex-WDH employee fired over privacy breach
Adam D. Krauss updates us on developments related to allegations concerning a breach at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital (previous news stories here): The former Wentworth-Douglass Hospital pathologists who claimed the hospital retaliated against them over a patient privacy have sued an ex-WDH employee who was fired over the matter. In paperwork filed today at Strafford County Superior…
Update: UTMB sends more letters to possible ID theft victims
Cindy George reports that the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston breach reported last month was bigger than originally thought and more people have now been notified. At least 10 people have self-identified as victims of identity theft: One month after mailing letters to 1,200 patients whose confidential information may have been stolen in…