Two veterans have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs over a recent data breach at the William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center in in Columbia, S.C., The State reports. About the Data Breach In February, VA officials reported that a laptop was missing from a testing lab in the Dorn medical center’s respiratory […]
Read MoreA security alert from the University of Rochester Medical Center. Hundreds of former orthopedic patients have had their personal information compromised. The hospital says a resident physician misplaced a computer flash drive that had the information on it. The breach happened in March. Since then, the hospital has had to retrace its steps and send letters out […]
Read MoreAuthor Name Patrick Ouellette Lakeshore Mental Health Institute of Tennessee has been associated with a strange patient data breach of records that date back to 1995, but the incident doesn’t involve any current patients. That’s because, as WBIR.com reports, the organization ended patient admissions in June 2012, but sensitive data has still been exposed to […]
Read MoreBy Jordan Robertson Arnold Salinas knows a lot about the person who stole his identity. He’s 5-foot-9, 190 pounds. He pays for pizzas with forged checks, defaulted on a $17,000 car loan and has traveled the country, racking up speeding tickets and thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes, according to Salinas and a firm he’s […]
Read MoreBY DONNA DEENEY Medical records containing intimate details of patients being treated in a Western Trust hospital have been dumped in a woman’s garden. The confidential documents of 17 different elderly patients from the Waterside Hospital included instructions to doctors not to resuscitate certain patients. They were discovered by a woman in a bin bag […]
Read Moreby Deanna Pogorelc As the use of mobile devices, file-sharing software and cloud services has been on the rise among healthcare providers, data breaches have been rising steadily along with them. A hefty 94 percent of healthcare organizations who participated in an annual survey said they had at least one data breach in the past […]
Read MoreBy Hillary Davis A burglar swiped a laptop and hard drive containing sensitive medical and personal data for hundreds of mental health patients from Yuma and across the state. Alicia Z. Aguirre is the general counsel for Yuma’s Arizona Counseling and Treatment Services, a contracted provider with Cenpatico Behavioral Health of Arizona. It was one […]
Read MoreDefendant Stole Patient Records From Nursing Homes To Create And Submit False Medicare Claims Earlier today, Helene Michel, an owner and officer of Medical Solutions Management, Inc. (“MSM”), was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison by United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York. Michel was […]
Read MoreA woman who found two courier bags containing patients’ medical records on a busy road in Devon has said she was “absolutely horrified”. Jo Bell, from Dawlish, spotted the bags on the A379 near Powderham Castle, near Exeter, on Wednesday afternoon. She said they appeared to have been in transit from Torbay Hospital to the […]
Read MoreJackson Lewis LLPJoseph J. Lazzarotti In 2012, medical malpractice defendants and their defense attorneys earned the right to petition the court for a qualified protective order that would allow them to interview plaintiffs’ health care providers without the presence of the claimants or their attorneys. At that time, one of the conditions for the order was […]
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