Kevin Ma reports: An emergency room doctor from St. Albert has been suspended for at least a month because she illegally tapped into restricted medical files. The College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta announced this week that it had found Deanne “Dee” Gayle Watrich, an emergency room doctor and a St. Albert resident, to…
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Two HIPAA breaches involving Mid America Health that flew under the media radar
Back on January 3, I blogged about three breach reports I had stumbled across in December. One of them involved an undated substitute notice from Mid America Health concerning a stolen laptop. I had e-mailed Mid America Health in December to ask when the breach had occurred and for more details, but they did not respond to my inquiry…
A Privacy Law Often Misinterpreted
Paul Spahn writes: … Hipaa (sic) protects the patient, not the institution or the provider. And the patient can informally agree to share her health care information with her family, with friends, with anyone she chooses. The act doesn’t limit that disclosure to “next of kin,” a phrase fading from use, or to the person…
2nd Cir Certified Question Raises Medical Privacy Concerns
Robyn Hagan Cain writes: Does the unauthorized disclosure of confidential medical information by a clinic’s employee create a right of action for breach of a fiduciary duty against the clinic under New York law? Does it matter if the blabbermouth employee acted outside the scope of her employment? If she was not the plaintiff’s treating…
Class action lawsuit filed against hospital, former staff and Fleming College
A lawsuit has been filed in Canada in the wake of a snooping breach reported last year: A multi-million dollar lawsuit has been filed against the Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC), some of its former staff members and Fleming College. The lawsuit comes after 280 patient files at the hospital were breached. Information regarding the…
Recent Oregon Health & Science University breach was their fourth breach involving unencrypted information
As I read coverage around the internet, I saw a few reports on the recent OSHU breach that mentioned it was OHSU’s third reported HIPAA breach since 2009. Actually, it’s only the second breach that will appear on HHS’s breach tool, but it’s important to note that this was OHSU’s fourth HIPAA breach that we…