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…
Author: Dissent
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…
Mozilla accidentally publishes user IDs and passwords hashes
Chester Wisniewski writes: On Monday, Mozilla, the developer of popular open source applications like Firefox and Thunderbird, announced that a database containing usernames and password hashes belonging to users of addons.mozilla.org had been posted publicly by accident. If you registered for an account on addons.mozilla.org and you are one of the 44,000 users who might…
Doctor sex misconduct cases monitored in secrecy
Megan Twohey reports: A private program that has long kept secret watch over Illinois doctors receiving substance-abuse treatment is now monitoring health care professionals with sexual misconduct violations — including some convicted of crimes. Begun several decades ago by the state’s doctors’ lobby, the Illinois Professionals Health Program has drawn criticism for the off-the-books nature…