Category: Health Data

Jason Geary reports that a former employee of Florida Hospital has pleaded guilty to accessing and selling patient information as part of a referral scheme. Read more on The Ledger.

Jonathan D. Silver reports: Monroeville’s assistant police chief has filed a complaint alleging that his own municipality, UPMC and the department’s former chief breached a federal privacy law governing release of medical information. […] The complaint, filed in August by Assistant Chief Steven Pascarella, claims that information about ambulance dispatches was being sent not only…

Richard Gazarik reports: Federal officials are investigating how patient records loaded with intimate medical details and doctors’ personnel files were abandoned amid the ruins of Monsour Medical Center when its administrators walked away from the failing facility six years ago. The records, in easy reach of the vagrants, arsonists and other trespassers who frequent the…

Today’s update of HHS’s breach tool reveals three more breaches not previously reported on this blog: Sierra Plastic Surgery in Nevada was hacked or had a network compromise between August 19, 2011 and September 20, 2011, but are apparently just reporting it to HHS now – unless HHS mistyped the year of the incident twice….

The Maryville Daily Times reports: Blount Memorial Hospital has informed patients of the theft of a hospital laptop containing registration records of Blount Heart Consultants. The laptop was reported stolen from an employee’s home on Aug. 25 and has not yet been recovered. Read more on The Maryville Daily Times.  There does not seem to…