From The Indy Channel: Members of an Indiana non-profit health care program were alerted on Wednesday about a possible privacy leak within the organization’s records. MDwise officials said the personal records of 2,700 Hoosiers covered by the Healthy Indiana Plan, Care Select and Hoosier Healthwise health programs were possibly leaked to the Internet. Officials said…
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Update: FBI interviews patient about alleged Prime Healthcare upcoding, privacy breach
Karen M. Cheung has more on the Prime Healthcare case, reporting that the FBI has interviewed the patient who gave her records to California Watch. While much of the report concerns the original focus of possible fraudulent billing of Medicare, some of the story concerns the privacy aspects. Reading it, you can understand why Prime…
GA: Man gets a year in prison for hacking, wiping medical competitor's computer
This is a follow-up to a breach reported previously on this blog. As I had deduced, the affected practice was Atlanta Perinatal Associates. The competitor still hasn’t been publicly named, however. Fran Jeffries reports: An Atlanta man has been sentenced to serve a year and a month in prison for hacking into a competing medical…
UK: Patient details on stolen hard drives, ICO set to impose huge fine
A story in The Argus suggests that the Information Commissioner’s Office is set to slam an NHS trust with a huge fine over a data breach: Confidential information belonging to tens of thousands of patients and staff were at risk of being exposed after computer hard drives were stolen and put up for sale on…
Ca: Health worker loses job after prying into patient files
Gordon Delaney reports: A Capital Health employee has lost her job after prying into confidential patient medical files and later telling one of those patients she couldn’t trust herself not to do it again. The patient, Mary Schinold, wants answers about the breach of privacy involving health records at Hants Community Hospital in Windsor. Schinold…
Prime Healthcare defends its disclosure of patient records – are they begging for a federal and state prosecution or what?
There’s a follow-up to a situation I blogged about earlier this week where a patients’ records were revealed to media by executives of Shasta Regional Medical Center without explicit patient consent. Michael Hiltzik provides an update to his previous coverage: Prime Healthcare has responded, with a letter and a public statement, to my January 4 column about the…