Dean Pritchard reports: In what is the first case of its kind in the province, a former Manitoba Health employee who accessed the medical records of his estranged daughter has been fined $7,500. The 58-year-old accused, a retired city police officer, was convicted after trial earlier this year of one count of accessing personal health…
Category: Healthcare
Hospital Staff In Trouble For Photographing Patient’s Genitals
Zye Angiwan reports: Hospital staff taking photos of patients’ genitals makes headlines again, this time at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s Bedford Memorial Hospital. A whole crowd had gathered to snap pictures and record videos of an unconscious patient’s genitals that had a foreign object protrusion, The Washington Post reports. One staffer described it…
The Utah Blood Draw Story: Drawing Unwarranted Conclusions
David Edquist and Aaron M. Smith of Briesen & Roper write: The viral video of a Utah nurse being arrested for refusing to draw blood from an unconscious patient brought into the public view a legal conundrum faced by health care providers. The ensuing public conversation generated abundant concern for the nurse, criticism of the…
Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Sued Following HIPAA Violation
Elizabeth Snell reports: New York-based Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital is being sued for faxing patient PHI to the patient’s employer, a reported HIPAA violation that has already resulted in an OCR HIPAA settlement. The Law Offices of Jeffrey Lichtman represent the client whose PHI was exposed, and explained in a blog post that the…