Cindy Harnett and Nick Wells report that a Victoria urologist is under investigation by health authorities over allegations he photographed an unconscious, morbidly obese male patient and sent the picture to a friend. Read more on The Province. There are lots of understandable reasons why a doctor might want to share an unusual or interesting case…
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Hartselle man files complaint after Decatur hospital shares his mother's personal information with third-party vendor
Anyone can file a HIPAA privacy complaint with HHS, but I’m not confident this one will go anywhere if there is a signed business associate contract in place and the patient signed the privacy practices notice. I do think there needs to be an investigation on the Social Security number part of the complaint, though. See…
California reveals monetary penalties issued to hospitals in 2013 for medical privacy breaches
California’s Department of Public Health (CDPH) has fined nine hospitals this year for failure to prevent unauthorized access to patient medical information, as required by Section 1280.15 of California’s Health and Safety Code. The fines were issued for breaches reported in previous years. Frustratingly, the state’s web page that reports the penalties and underlying reports…
San Jose Medical Supply reports insider breach; sues former employees and two competitors
There are some details I routinely look for in breach reports. So when I saw a breach report yesterday that indicated the breach occurred in August 2011 and wasn’t discovered until June 27, 2013, it caught my eye. According to a letter sent this week to affected customers and patients, San Jose Medical Supply Company…
Update: South Miami Hospital insider breach
Betty Cole, a South Miami Hospital who stole 800 patients’ information for a tax refund fraud ring, pleaded guilty yesterday. Additional background on this case can be found on this blog here and here. As of today’s date, it would appear that HHS’s investigation of the incident has not been closed.
Digging in their heels: Wyndham and LabMD challenge FTC’s authority in data security cases
Cross-posted from PHIprivacy.net: Adam Greenberg reports on two cases where businesses have challenged the FTC’s authority in data security cases. Although Wyndham’s challenge has been discussed in detail on DataBreaches.net (see these posts), I haven’t really described the LabMD case until now. In the LabMD case, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reported last year: The federal agency…