Category: Health Data

Natasha Lolita Orr, 36, of Miami, a former employee at Holy Cross Hospital, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to disclosing individually identifiable health information. During the previous plea hearing, Orr admitted to stealing patient information from the Holy Cross Hospital Emergency Room during her employment at the hospital. She then sold that stolen…

As noted yesterday, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida was one of four entities added to HHS’s breach tool as recently reporting a breach.  I contacted BCBSFL and they kindly sent me a link to a press release they had issued on March 7 explaining the incident: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Corrects…

None of the following incidents appear to be reported on entities’ web sites or in the media sources I check, so here is how HHS reports them on their breach tool and I will try to find out more about them: JEFFREY J. SMITH, MD,OK,,600,11/24/2010,Loss ,Desktop Computer/Other Portable Electronic Device,, Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital,TX,,…

Maura Lerner of the Star Tribune reports: In February, staffers at Fairview Health Services in Minneapolis packed up about 1,200 patient records for shipping to a new office across town. Unfortunately, no one at Fairview has seen the box since. This week, officials began notifying patients that their health and billing records — including names,…

Guillermo Contreras reports: A San Antonio man pleaded guilty this week to possessing numerous medical files stolen from an area doctor, while a local woman was indicted separately for using stolen identifying information in a bank fraud scam. Douglas Allen Ewert, 28, entered the guilty plea Tuesday to fraud related to stolen identification documents after…