If Yogi Berra were writing this one up, he might say “It’s deja vu all over again.” Alicia Agent reports: Van Buren Police are looking for two men who stole old radiology films from Summit Medical center. Police believe the men took the x-rays so they could be melted down for silver. On August 12,…
Category: Health Data
More on the Johns Hopkins Hospital-related indictments
Yesterday, when indictments were announced in an ID theft case involving a former employee of Johns Hopkins Hospital, I contacted the hospital to ask whether this was an incident that we had previous knowledge about in the media or blogosphere or if it was news to us. A spokesperson for the hospital just emailed me the…
Fairmont Medical Center fires 6 employees for snooping
A few weeks ago, the Mayo Clinic fired an employee who had been snooping in patient records for years. Now Meg Alexander reports that Fairmont Medical Center – Mayo Health has fired six employees for breaching patient confidentiality: Six employees have been fired by Fairmont Medical Center because of a breach in patient confidentiality,…
UK: Health records loss 'breached data protection rules
An NHS board breached data protection rules when a member of staff lost sensitive patient records, an investigation has found. The medical records of patients at a secure hospital near Falkirk were uploaded onto a personal memory stick, which was then lost. It was found by a 12-year-old boy in a supermarket car park in…
Five indicted in Johns Hopkins Hospital ID theft ring
A federal grand jury has indicted the following five Maryland defendants on fraud and aggravated identity theft charges in connection with a scheme to use stolen hospital patient identity information to open fraudulent credit accounts and make purchases on “instant credit” at retail stores in Maryland: Michael Allen, age 34, of Baltimore, Jasmine Amber Smith,…
Update on my FOI request to HHS/OCR for breach reports
I received a phone call from OCR this morning to discuss my FOI request for the breach reports HHS is receiving under HITECH regulations. I had requested electronic copies of the reporting forms breached entities submitted via HHS’s web site. The conversation was a bit of an eye-opener for me. First, it turns out…