Kawana Brown, 36, of West Palm Beach, pled guilty last week for her participation in a wide-ranging identity theft scheme. Specifically, Brown pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ‘ 1349 (Count 1), three counts of wire fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ‘ 1343 (Counts…
Category: Health Data
Personal Records Thrown In Dumpster From Topeka Dental Service Company
WIBW in Kansas reports: Last week 13 News reported about confidential records found in a dumpster behind a Topeka office building. Since then, 13 News has been investigating to find out where those documents came from, and it seems the origin isn’t too far away from where they were found. […] Jim found an additional…
KY: UK HealthCare warns 1,079 patients after laptop with their info stolen from Talyst employee
LEX18 reports: UK HealthCare [University of Kentucky HealthCare] is notifying more than 1,000 patients about a breach of protected health information. Officials say someone stole a password protected lap-top owned by a business partner of the hospital. They say that laptop contains confidential information about current and former patients. Read more on LEX18 A statement…
Settlement of Lawsuit against Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Former Vendor Gets Tentative Approval
Back in August 2011, Stanford Hospital & Clinics (SHC) disclosed that medical records for 20,000 emergency room patients, including names and diagnosis codes, had been exposed on a public website due to the actions of a former billing contractor’s employee who, seeking help converting the data, had uploaded the file on the “Student of Fortune” website. Both…
Marian Regional Medical Center notifies patients whose files were sent to the wrong insurance plan
Marian Regional Medical Center (part of Dignity Health) recently notified patients after electronic files with “limited patient information” was sent to the wrong contracted health insurance plan during the first week of March. The agent who received it promptly notified MRMC. According to the letter sent to patients on March 13, the file information included…
Fresenius Medical Care notifies dialysis patients of missing USB drive
In December, Fresenius Medical Care of North America (FMCNA) discovered that a USB drive with patient information was missing from their Robinwood Dialysis Center in Hagerstown, Maryland. The drive had been attached to a computer in the dialysis center. The information on the missing drive varied across patients, but included the patient’s name plus one or…