The Associated Press reports: One of three University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics workers being fired for allegedly breaching the medical records of injured football players is a 26-year employee who says she did nothing wrong, a union president said Monday. The woman has a spotless disciplinary record during her employment at UIHC and has…
Category: Health Data
Thousands of Medi-Cal records of San Franciscans breached
Brent Begin reports: About 2,400 Medi-Cal recipients in San Francisco had their names, Social Security numbers and other identifying information breached as part of an employee dispute at Human Services Agency of San Francisco, officials said. A former city employee, considering legal action against The City after being fired from the agency that disperses welfare…
Thousands of Medi-Cal records of San Franciscans breached
Brent Begin reports: About 2,400 Medi-Cal recipients in San Francisco had their names, Social Security numbers and other identifying information breached as part of an employee dispute at Human Services Agency of San Francisco, officials said. A former city employee, considering legal action against The City after being fired from the agency that disperses welfare…
FTC Offers Businesses Tips for Dealing with Medical Identity Theft
The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, has information for health care providers and insurers about how to help patients minimize the risk of medical identity theft and deal with the consequences if they become victims of it. Here are the highlights of the FTC’s new publication, Medical Identity Theft FAQs for Health Care Providers…
University of Iowa hospital to fire 3 workers, suspend 2 over breach of football players' data
More on a breach originally covered in an earlier blog post. Ryan J. Foley of Associated Press reports: The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will fire three employees and suspend two others after an investigation confirmed they inappropriately breached the electronic medical records of hospitalized football players, a spokesman said Thursday. Read more on Newser.
Private University of Washington medical records sold at surplus store
Allen Schauffler reports that someone who found patient records in a piece of furniture he bought at the University of Washington surplus store turned the records over to the news station. The medical data is mostly X-ray and MRI imaging of spines, apparently in various stages of disarray. In my very cursory check of what’s…