Park Ridge-based Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care is alerting patients after a laptop computer containing patients’ personal information was stolen during a nurse’s home visit in April. The theft occurred April 12 in Chicago, Rainbow Hospice announced publicly last week. The computer contained patient names, addresses, social security numbers, insurance information, medications, treatments and diagnoses,…
Category: Health Data
Owner and operator of behavioral counseling company convicted of health care fraud
Edward Birts, of Houston, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud and aggravated identity theft arising from his role in a health care fraud scheme in which Medicare and Medicaid were fraudulently billed for psychiatric counseling services, U.S. Attorney José Angel Moreno and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced…
Missing records on stolen laptop from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Unencrypted. Employee’s car. Pardon me while I spit. Peggy O’Farrell reports (emphasis added by me): Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is beefing up its computer security after a laptop computer containing more than 61,000 patient records was stolen. The laptop was stolen from a hospital employee’s personal vehicle while it was parked outside the employee’s…
Missing records on stolen laptop from Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Peggy O’Farrell reports: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is beefing up its computer security after a laptop computer containing more than 61,000 patient records was stolen. The laptop was stolen from a hospital employee’s personal vehicle while it was parked outside the employee’s home in late March. Cincinnati police were notified of the theft. The…
CO: Boulder Community Hospital: 79 patients had medical records exposed
Vanessa Miller reports: After an extensive investigation of a reported theft of medical records from two clinics in the Boulder Community Hospital’s network earlier this year, officials have determined that 79 patients had their personal information exposed. Hospital spokesman Rich Sheehan said the information theft was confined to patients of the Family Medical Associates clinic…
Ca: University Health Network Notifies Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) of stolen laptop with patient information
University Health Network (UHN) is issuing this advisory to notify patients who had surgical procedures from 2004-2010 about a stolen laptop taken from a staff person’s car on the weekend of May 8-9, 2010. The laptop contained select personal health information on about 20,000 surgical patients from all sites at University Health Network. University Health…