Category: Health Data

Steve Nowottny reports: EXCLUSIVE: Four NHS trusts in five have lost patient data or suffered a data security breach since the beginning of last year, Pulse can reveal. Our investigation reveals the true scale of confidentiality breaches within the NHS, with trusts reporting more than 1,300 incidents since January 2007. […] Figures obtained the Freedom…

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today charged Treatment Associates of Victoria Inc., with violating the Texas Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act. According to court documents, the San Antonio-based drug testing and rehabilitation facility violated a state law that requires businesses to protect their customers’ sensitive information. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) launched…

Matt Wilkinson reports: An investigation has been launched into how a file loaded with confidential information on vulnerable mental health patients was picked up by a shopper in Oxford. A member of the public found the folder — lost by Bromford Housing Group — at Templars Square shopping centre in Cowley. The folder contained personal…

ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS reports: At hospitals, as at Tiffany’s, ruby-colored bracelets are far preferable to amethyst. New York’s 11 public hospitals are at the forefront of a national movement to standardize color coding of hospital wristbands to designate patient conditions, in which purple — the color of amethyst — means “Do Not Resuscitate.” Red, or ruby,…

A Cedar Rapids chiropractor is facing nearly 40 counts of fraud, identity theft and money laundering. Douglas P. Dvorak was charged in an indictment filed this week in the U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids. The indictment alleges that 45-year-old Dvorak submitted false Medicaid claims for chiropractic services he never provided. It also says he…

Patient records from Heyman Hospice Care were scattered all over streets in west Rome around 10:00 this morning. City police have confirmed that records were found on the streets in the area of Howell Motor Cars near Division Street. When contacted, officials from the Hospice indicated that any comment would have to come from the…