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NewsUCLA patient data breached (again)
A piece of paper with the password to personal information of 16,288 patients is missing after a home invasion of a former employee. UCLA Health System on Friday notified the thousands of at-risk Read more...
Patient drops suit against Tufts Medical Center over privacy breach
In a turn of events, the woman who sued Tufts Medical Center and a physician over what she said was violated privacy by faxing medical records without her consent, dropped the lawsuit. Tufts did not Read more...
Tufts Medical Center sued for faxing patient records without consent
Tufts Medical Center in Boston faces a lawsuit after a patient said the hospital faxed her medical records to her workplace without her consent, causing her embarrassment, reports The Boston Globe Read more...
Feds impose first civil fine ever in HIPAA case
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights hit Cignet Health with a $4.3 million civil penalty for violating the HIPAA Privacy Rule and failing to cooperate during the Read more...
Hospitals fined $667K for patient privacy breaches
California's Department of Public Health has fined six hospitals $667,000 for failing to prevent patient privacy breaches. Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield was hit with the largest penalty, Read more...
Veteran's medical records missing, accidental shredding blamed
More than 100 pages of medical records related to a veteran's heart condition and benefit claims went missing, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. George Wincapaw, a 63-year-old Vietnam War Read more...
Patient records found at dump
As if growing concern about medical identity theft due to the online storage of records wasn't bad enough, thousands of Boston-area patients now apparently need to worry about their paper records Read more...
Doctor harrassed his family using info obtained from medical records
Despite allegedly using information inappropriately obtained from medical records to repeatedly harass his recently estranged family, state Board of Medical Practice officials did not punish a Read more...
Massachusetts medical records dispute highlights competition over primary care
Getting and keeping primary-care doctors is, if anything, is a more urgent matter than in the past--so it's small wonder that hospitals would engage in trench warfare to keep them on board. That Read more...
FL hospital employee sells medical records to personal injury attourney
Just when you thought you'd heard about every possible way to misuse medical information, here's another one for your personal library of true health information crimes. In this case, according to Read more...
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