Police have arrested 42-year-old Juvenal Caballero Guerrero, formerly a patient-care assistant at Houston’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, on charges of “selling about 12 pages of patient information for $500 to a representative of Industrial Safety Consultants, a company that advertises ‘investigations regarding accidents and injuries’ from its Houston offices. According to court documents, investigators were told the company has sold stolen patient records to personal-injury lawyers. … Prosecutors said the arrests won’t stop with Guerrero…’There are lots of other people involved,'” Harris County prosecutor Lester Blizzard told the Houston Chronicle, including employees of other health institutions. Lawyers might also face charges if they can be proved to have directly solicited business from accident victims. (“Former Houston hospital worker arrested”, AP/Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Aug. 28; “Hospital Employee Charged With Theft, Sale of Patient Information”, BNA Health Law Reporter, undated Sept.; Annie Blanco, “Hospital worker arrested for medical record theft”, News 24 Houston, Aug. 28)(via SickOfLawsuits.org)
Oh, that medical privacy
Police have arrested 42-year-old Juvenal Caballero Guerrero, formerly a patient-care assistant at Houston’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, on charges of “selling about 12 pages of patient information for $500 to a representative of Industrial Safety Consultants, a company that advertises ‘investigations regarding accidents and injuries’ from its Houston offices. According to court documents, investigators were told […]
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The intent of HIPPA
Read this – you just may not believe it. Oh, that medical privacy