Fears over a privacy breach involving a now-deceased doctor at Johns Hopkins are growing as word spreads about the breach. As reported by CBS, a number of Dr. Nikita Levy’s patients are worried that they may have been videotaped or recorded by him during gynecological or obstetrical visits and that the recordings may have been…
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Medical assistant stole patient information for insurance fraud scheme – investigators
Another insider breach at a Florida medical practice for a fraud scheme; this time it’s insurance fraud. WFTV reports that Selina Rodriguez, a medical assistant formerly employed at Mid-Florida Urological Associates, illegally accessed patient records from Orlando Health, which operates hospitals in the Orlando area, including Orlando Regional Medical Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, Winnie…
Johns Hopkins responds to serious patient privacy breach (update 2)
Justin Fenton, Scott Dance and Jessica Anderson report on a nightmarish privacy breach for patients and a hospital: A Johns Hopkins gynecologist who was being investigated on allegations that he secretly recorded patients was found dead this morning at his home in Baltimore County, police and hospital officials confirmed. The doctor, identified as Nikita A….
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Heyman HospiceCare notifies patients after laptop stolen from employee's car
The Rome News-Tribune in Georgia reports: Heyman HospiceCare is offering patients who may have had their personal information on a stolen and still-missing laptop a free one-year membership to a credit monitoring service, according to a news release from Floyd Medical Center. According to the news release: A password-protected laptop was stolen Jan. 4 from…
Ca: West Nile patients told about potential privacy breach
CBC News reports: The Saskatchewan Health Ministry is writing to 58 West Nile virus patients about a potential breach of their private health information. It happened during a health management class in 2005 and 2006 at the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology. Up to 140 students in a health information management course were…