As an update on a breach reported earlier this month (here), Pamela Lewis Dolan of amednews.com reports: Meanwhile, Impulse Monitoring, a Columbia, Md., company that provides onsite and Web-based monitoring of neurological systems for patients undergoing spinal and brain-related injuries, is denying any responsibility in a case involving the June 6 dumping of several boxes…
Category: Health Data
WA: 8,000 patient records stolen from Family Care Center on Whidbey; identity theft feared
Jeff Vanderford If you are, or have ever been, a patient at the Family Care Center physical therapy clinic, call your bank. Right away. That’s the advice of owner Jim Christensen, after discovering that more than 8,000 of his patients’ names had been stolen during a burglary last weekend. The list includes patient accounts from…
X-ray tech accused of voyeurism was storing Willard Mercy medical records
Cary Ashby reports: A Willard rental unit company found various Mercy Willard Hospital records being stored by a former ultrasound technician accused of voyeurism and child pornography at a Tiffin facility. However, Mercy CEO and President Lynn Detterman said there was nothing considered suspicious, pornographic or of a criminal nature in the storage unit once…
Hong Kong: Hospital data stolen (updated)
RTHK reports: A computer hard disk containing the names, identity card numbers and other personal information of about 3,000 eye patients has been stolen from the Caritas Medical Centre in Sham Shui Po. The hospital said the disk was kept in a locked room pending destruction. It was discovered missing last week. A search was…
UNR Warns Patients About Possible Health Info Compromise
KTVN reports: Some University Health System patients are being notified by letter that their information may possibly have been viewed without consent. Here is the information we received in the Channel 2 Newsroom directly from the University of Nevada: Computer equipment from a University Health System office in Reno was stolen on June 11 and,…
TX: Tyler Businessman Arrested for Heath Care Fraud Violations
A Tyler businessman has been arrested on charges of health care fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today. Nicodemus Udofia, 50, of Tyler, was arrested on June 15, 2010, in connection with a health care fraud scheme. On June 3, 2010, a federal grand jury returned a…