Back in November 2012, this blog noted a breach affecting 100,000 patients whose information was on a laptop stolen from an Alere Home Monitoring employee’s car. A lawsuit subsequently followed. Now Law360 reports that a California federal judge threw out the proposed class action lawsuit, finding – as previous courts have also held – that the negligent release of…
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UK: South Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust signs undertaking after breach
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: An undertaking to comply with the first, third and seventh data protection principles has been signed by South Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust. This includes the completion of a Privacy Impact Assessment in respect of data sharing. This follows an investigation whereby patient data related to 45, 431 data subjects…
Podiatrist charged with health care fraud and identity theft
Westmoreland Times reports: Aileen Gong, D.P.M., 55 years of age, of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, was charged by indictment with health care fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft, according to an announcement by United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment charges that between 2009 and February 2014, Gong, a podiatrist, submitted at least…
Prescription Database Privacy Case Heads For Legal Showdown
Alison Diana reports: To combat “doctor shopping,” “pill mills,” and addiction to medications such as pain and anti-anxiety pills, many states have created databases that track the doctors who prescribe and patients who take these medications. Used by pharmacies and practices to ensure consumers aren’t seeing multiple physicians to get controlled substances, these databases also…
Ca: Judge expands Alberta health privacy laws in case where woman’s access to parents restricted
Karen Kleiss reports: In a precedent-setting decision, Alberta’s Court of Queen’s Bench has ruled the province’s Health Information Act protects any information broadly connected to a patient’s care, even if that information is about another person. The sweeping decision from Justice Thomas Wakeling last month overturned a ruling from Alberta’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, and…
Touchstone Medical Imaging reveals data breach
Dave Lewis reports: Touchstone Medical Imaging is a company that is based in Brentwood Tennessee. This is a medical firm that provides services such as MRI, CT scans, Ultrasound and Mammography. Today they announced that they suffered a data breach as the result of an open share that was exposed to the Internet. This shared…