Christina Dickinson and Dave Delozier report: It was the last thing Harold Morton expected to find while taking some recyclables out to the alley behind his home. When he walked past a Dumpster, he saw it in a cardboard box: a thick blue binder. “I picked the book up and I opened it and right…
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CO: Medical marijuana records found near Dumpster (update3)
Christina Dickinson and Dave Delozier report: It was the last thing Harold Morton expected to find while taking some recyclables out to the alley behind his home. When he walked past a Dumpster, he saw it in a cardboard box: a thick blue binder. “I picked the book up and I opened it and right…
IN: Man billed $50,000 for medical ID theft
Kendra Yagow reports: Deaconess Hospital is out $50,000 in what authorities are calling a case of identity theft. Evansville Police were received a call on Monday after a hospital worker reported a patient received services, but it was his brother who got the bill, and he doesn’t even live in Indiana. […] Police don’t know…
Pennsylvania couple sentenced in bank fraud and ID theft case
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a husband and wife who used fraudulent identities to obtain credit cards were sentenced in federal court today by Senior United States District Court Judge William J. Nealon. According to United States Attorney Peter J. Smith, Ruth Singh, age 31, and Kuldeep…
Adolescents' Needs for Health Care Privacy
Maria T. Britto, Tanya L. Tivorsak and Gail B. Slap have authored a research report, “Adolescents’ Needs for Health Care Privacy,” in Pediatrics (2010, vol. 126). Here’s the abstract: OBJECTIVE: To understand adolescents’ preferences for multidimensional aspects of privacy, including psychological, social, and physical, and con?dentiality (informational privacy) in the health care setting. PATIENTS AND METHODS:…
Geisinger informs patients of disclosure of protected health information
Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System has posted the following announcement to their site: In accordance with Geisinger Health System policy and applicable federal regulations, Geisinger Health System has notified approximately 2,928 patients that some of their Protected Health Information (PHI) has been disclosed in an unauthorized manner. On November 6, 2010, Geisinger became aware that on…