AURORA, Colo. — It’s personal information we vigorously protect. We know in the wrong hands—our social security number and birth date can lead to identity theft. But what about others we trust to keep that information secret? A viewer sent FOX31 a tip about medical records tossed in the trash at Southlands in Aurora. In […]
Read MoreFormer owners of a medical billing practice and four pathology groups in Massachusetts will collectively pay $140,000 to settle potential HIPAA allegations after medical records and billing information for some 67,000 patients were improperly disposed of at a public dump, Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley announced Jan.7. The complaint, filed in Suffolk Superior Court, alleges […]
Read MoreA Davenport man has admitted helping a husband-and-wife team steal personal information in a scheme that accessed the records of 12,000 hospital patients, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida. Sergei Kusyakov, 38, pleaded guilty Monday to a count of conspiracy and four counts of wrongful disclosure of personal health information. […]
Read MoreHospice of North Idaho settles HIPAA security case for $50,000 The Hospice of North Idaho (HONI) has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) $50,000 to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security Rule. This is the first settlement involving a breach […]
Read MoreAMMON, Idaho – A man is questioning just how safe our medical records are, after he found volumes of records in the Dumpster behind his workplace. Related Content State officials were shredding the documents Thursday. Wes Dustin doesn’t want to share where he works, but he does want to share what he found there when […]
Read MoreFor the coming new year, healthcare groups and their business associates (BAs) need to get their privacy and security house in order, as they will be facing new audits and more monetary enforcement surrounding data breaches – this according to Leon Rodriguez, director of the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health […]
Read MoreLEE COUNTY – Invasion of privacy…..Fox 4 finding hundreds of patients’ medical records containing sensitive information….just tossed in a dumpster in North Fort Myers. These documents belonging to a medical facility that’s now under investigation. Four in your Corner investigator Mike Mason is here now with more. A Lee County man was looking through a […]
Read MoreA shocking catalogue of blunders by Northern Ireland’s health trusts, which exposed the private details of hundreds of vulnerable patients, can be revealed by the Belfast Telegraph. Serious lapses in data protection and confidentiality procedures saw highly sensitive information lost, disclosed to the wrong people and even published on the Internet. Full Article
Read MoreA 33-year-old Lufkin, Texas woman has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Joneshia Cranford pleaded guilty on July 20, to wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information before U.S. Magistrate Judge Zack Hawthorn. Full Article
Read MoreA physician’s unencrypted personal laptop that may have contained protected health information on 3,900 patients at Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center was stolen, the hospital admitted Monday. Full Article
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