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…
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Is Doctor’s Disclosure of Patient’s HIV-Positive Status Medical Malpractice?
Michael C. Ksiazek writes: A recent New Jersey case addressed a statute of limitations issue pertaining to claims arising from a physician’s disclosure of a patient’s HIV-positive status to a third party without his consent. Plaintiff was a patient of the defendant physician, a board-certified nephrologist. He was being treated for acute kidney failure. During an emergency…
5 Denver Health nurses suspended after opening body bag to view genitals
Joe Dahlke reports: Five nurses at Denver Health Medical Center were suspended for three weeks after opening a bag to inappropriately view a deceased patient’s genitals, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday. The incident was reported after a different nurse overheard one of the suspended nurses make a comment about it, according to a Denver Health…
If you care about medical privacy, then what happened to Justin Bieber should concern you
Good grief. When I saw this headline, my first thought was that maybe OurMine had hacked the NY Daily News, but it seems the headline was for real. Justin Bieber had reportedly sought emergency medical care, an employee had been fired for allegedly accessing his medical records without necessity, and somehow the press found out…