JAMAICA — A pair of hospital employees were charged last week with illegally accessing patients’ information and giving it to ambulance chasers trying to pick them up as clients — sometimes even while patients were still laid up in the emergency room, the Queens district attorney said.
Maritza Amador and Dache Prawl, both registrars at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, allegedly accessed more than 250 confidential files of patients they had not admitted in violation of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, District Attorney Richard Brown said.
The two were charged with computer trespassing, illegally possessing personal information and unauthorized use of a computer, said the DA, who added Amador Prawl face up to four yeas in prison if convicted on the charges.
