Warren Richey reports: The US Supreme Court on Monday turned aside an appeal involving the scope of privacy protections for a patient’s medical records when a state agency seeks to force a doctor to disclose those records without first obtaining a patient’s consent. At issue was a Maryland law that empowers an oversight board to…
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An attempt to protect privacy devolves into a scene
Maintaining patient privacy is always an issue in hospitals. In emergency rooms, it may become even more challenging. Last week, my mother was taken by ambulance to an emergency room. To protect her privacy, I won’t say why other than she definitely needed emergency medical care and was in danger of not one, but two,…
AU: Dumped computers exploited in overseas fraud
There’s nothing really new here, but it’s a useful reminder. Natalie O’Brien reports: Criminal networks are feeding off Australians’ lust for new technology by skimming data from computers dumped in Africa and Asia – and using it for blackmail, fraud and identity theft. They will pay as much as $200 on the black market for…
AU: Dumped computers exploited in overseas fraud
There’s nothing really new here, but it’s a useful reminder. Natalie O’Brien reports: Criminal networks are feeding off Australians’ lust for new technology by skimming data from computers dumped in Africa and Asia – and using it for blackmail, fraud and identity theft. They will pay as much as $200 on the black market for…
Former Broward School District employee sentenced to 5 years for ID thefts
This is an update to a case previously mentioned on PHIprivacy.net. At the time, the emphasis of my coverage was on other members of the ID theft ring who worked in medical offices and stole patient information. NBC Miami provided more details on the school district aspect: Jasmin Rembert, a worker in the teacher certification…
Update on the Florida Hospital breach
The Orlando Sentinel has updated its reporting on the Florida Hospital breach. You can read their coverage here, but among the new details revealed are that 2,252 patients are affected and that the purpose of the improper access seemed to be to identify car accident victims whose contact details could then be passed to an…