Martha Azzi reports: Five people have been charged with using fake and stolen medical records to defraud more than $500,000 from Medicare. Patient records illegally taken from a string of medical clinics in Sydney’s southwest have been used to lodge thousands of fraudulent claims, police say. Read more on Daily Mail.
Category: Health Data
Sask. health region employee who ‘snooped’ on 900+ records won’t get job back
Micki Cowan reports: A Saskatchewan X-ray technologist won’t be getting her job back after she was fired for “snooping” on hundreds of patient records without due cause, a breach of the Health Information Protection Act. A recently released labour arbitration decision shows that the employee — who claimed she was looking at the records for “educational purposes” — has been denied a…
South Bay Victim of Medical ID Theft Says Brother Should be in Prison
Vicky Nguyen and David Paredes report: South Bay man Ronnie Bogle gave an emotional courtroom statement at the sentencing hearing for his brother Gary Bogle, saying Gary “tortured” him for years by stealing his identity and using it for medical treatment at hospitals around the country. Read more on NBC.
Premier Healthcare notifying 200,000 patients after laptop with PHI stolen from office (UPDATE3)
UPDATE: The stolen laptop was recovered on March 7. See the update here. Original story: Lauren Slavin reports: Premier Healthcare patients are being notified of a possible data breach after a laptop with personal patient information was apparently stolen from the Bloomington office. More than 200,000 Premier Healthcare patients’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers and…
Ca: Medical files of 4,000 Vancouver patients stolen, raising alarms
Susan Lazaruk reports: Thieves who burgled a West Broadway office last month stole the personal medical files of 4,000 Vancouver patients, likely by far the largest privacy breach of medical records in B.C. in 10 years or longer. […] The theft of the 4,000 medical histories, which included names, addresses and B.C. Care Card numbers,…
Some previously unreported breaches
Maryland’s Attorney General’s list for 2015 contains over 500 breach reports, many of which were never covered by the media. Here are two involving health or medical entities or health data, followed by some from the education sector that you may not have known about: Dharani Jasthi DMD PC dba Today’s Dental Associates reported that they: received an…