Officials from the Betty Ford Clinic tell TMZ, they fired Dawn Holland — Lindsay Lohan’s accuser — because she violated confidentiality rules. In a statement to TMZ, Betty Ford officials say, “Regrettably, on December 21, 2010, one of our employees violated strict confidentiality guidelines and laws by publicly identifying patients in a media interview and…
Category: Health Data
VA reveals that veterans' PHI was stored on Yahoo calendar with shared password for three years
The Dept. of Veterans Affairs has issued its monthly report to Congress on data incidents for the month of November. As in past reports, there are a number of mis-mailed or mishandled prescriptions. Other incidents reported during this period included: A VA Attorney discovered names, partial social security numbers and treatment locations of approximately 140…
MI: Federal Investigators Shut Down Identity Theft Ring
A former Newland Medical Center employee was charged Monday with 15 counts of identity theft and criminal enterprise. Camille Butler of Detroit is accused of stealing patient information and giving it to her boyfriend, Artis Cleveland. Investigators said the couple stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise using the stolen identities of cancer…
Centra notifies 13,964 patients after laptop theft
Bryan Gentry reports: A laptop stolen in Alpharetta, Ga., in November held the names and billing information of nearly 14,000 Centra patients, the Lynchburg-based hospital system announced Monday. The computer files did not contain Social Security numbers or other information that could be used in identity theft, nor medical history information, Centra officials said. […]…
Dean Clinic and St. Mary’s Hospital reports 3,288 patients had data on laptop stolen in home invasion
Unencrypted protected health information was on a laptop stolen in a home invasion at a physician’s home. In addition to a short statement posted to the DeanCare web site, Dean Clinic and St. Mary’s Hospital in Wisconsin also issued a press release, reproduced on NBC15’s web site: On November 8, 2010, we received a report…
(follow-up) UK: Stolen NHS records spark clamp
There seems to be an order to news stories: first the breach announcement, then the announcement that security has been beefed up. What a shame that they don’t beef up security first to see if it prevents the breach. In today’s news, Sarah Kelly reports: Calderale’s hospital has stepped up security after a laptop containing…