Category: Health Data

Molly Hennessy-Fiske of the L. A. Times provides additional details on one of the fines levied on hospitals in California over breaches: Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center has been fined $95,000 by state officials for failing to prevent unauthorized employees from accessing patient information, the latest in a series of privacy breaches at the prestigious…

The Associated Press reports on another instance of home health aides stealing identity information or credit cards from the vulnerable individuals they are supposed to be caring for: Juliet Rose Levesque, a home healthcare provider from Fall River, stole the identity of a Bristol man for whom she was providing in-home nursing services. Levesque is…

Steve Tellier reports: The U.S. Secret Service said it has busted a one-of-a-kind identity theft ring, and one of the suspects is also accused of trying to kill another member of the ring. Eight suspects were indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday. The Secret Service said the suspects stole the identities of about…

Lora Hines reports: Community Hospital of San Bernardino has been fined a total of $325,000 for breaches of more than 200 patient records by two employees in 2009. Community Hospital is one of five facilities statewide recently fined $675,000 for unauthorized access of nearly 230 medical records for more than 200 patients in violation of…

Jason Kincaid reports: Sending your spit sample to a startup may not seem like such a good idea, after all. On Friday, 23andMe, the company that allows consumers to get portions of their genome tested for a relatively modest fee, announced that “a number of new 23andMe customer samples were incorrectly processed” by the lab…