by 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 […]
Read MoreAuthor Name Patrick Ouellette Will the government slap another government organization on the wrist for a patient data breach? We might find out soon. The William Jennings Bryan Dorn VA medical center alerted 7405 veteran patients on Friday of a recent breach involving an unprotected laptop with their personal information on the device. Patient names, birth […]
Read MoreAPRIL 4–With trial looming in the wrongful death suit filed by Michael Jackson’s mother and children, a Los Angeles man is seeking to sell records documenting the singer’s medical treatment after he was severely burned during the 1984 filming of a Pepsi commercial. The Jackson documents are being peddled by Brian McDaniel, a 51-year-old ambulance […]
Read MoreAuthor Name Kyle Murphy, PhD A federal grand jury in Savannah, Ga., has handed down six indictments April 2 to 12 defendants charged with filing fraudulent tax returns based on protected health information (PHI) from stolen medical records, various news outlets are reporting. Information about the source of the medical records or the patients affected […]
Read MoreBy Dave Elias, NBC2 Investigator A tip to the NBC2 Investigators led to a discovery of medical records being dumped behind a medical facility in Collier County. “I’m concerned and I’m disturbed. The fact that anyone can come by and grab them out of a garbage can,” said a medical industry expert who didn’t want […]
Read MoreBy Annie Siebert / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is investigating allegations that proprietary information from Monroeville’s 911 dispatch center was released in violation of federal privacy law. An August 2012 complaint to the department’s Office for Civil Rights alleged the municipality’s emergency management service provided health information protected under […]
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