Sandra Davis reports: A new policy regulating the storage of electronic personal health information will be in place within the next two weeks as a result of the disappearance of a USB memory stick last November at the Saint John Regional Hospital. The memory stick contained personal patient information, including Medicare numbers, of about 1,500…
Category: Health Data
MN: Fairview Health Services and North Memorial Hospital inform patients of breach due to Accretive Health's security #FAIL
Lorna Benson reports: Fairview and North Memorial Hospitals are notifying more than 16,000 patients that a laptop containing their personal and medical information was stolen. The laptop belonged to a healthcare services firm that coordinates services for Fairview. The theft occurred on July 25 in the parking lot of a Minneapolis restaurant. The computer contained…
[CORRECTED] TN: Patient data stolen from Summit Medical employee's car
Carly Harrington reports: Documents containing health information of about 750 Summit Medical Group patients was stolen from an employee’s vehicle earlier this month. The records including patient names and diagnoses were taken Sept. 4 when a case containing information about certain Summit patients’ hospital discharges from December 2010 through August 2011 was among items stolen…
Have you enrolled for free credit monitoring offered by WellPoint?
Today is the deadline to enroll in free credit monitoring if you are a member of the class involved in a class action lawsuit stemming from a breach in which WellPoint/ Anthem Blue Cross insurance applications were accessible to others. Information on the settlement can be found here. h/t, ABC
CO: Nurse faces 51 counts of medical records, ID theft at Boulder Community Hospital
A follow-up on a case reported previously on this blog by Erica Meltzer: A nurse accused of improperly accessing patient records at numerous hospitals in the Denver metro area faces five counts of identity theft and 46 counts of theft of medical records in connection with his time at Boulder Community Hospital between May 2010…
Woman denied new power wheelchair may be victim of medical identity theft
This appears to be a case where medical identity theft has harmed someone: It seems that identity theft and fraud have hit Medicare, according to an 86-year-old woman named Jessie Coles. She first discovered something was wrong after being denied by Medicare for a new power wheelchair. According to Medicare records she had already ordered…