Category: Health Data

Here’s a sentencing follow-up on a case previously mentioned on this blog. It seems that a number of the victims were employees of, or clients of, Resources for Human Development Inc.  

Once again, information on a breach at Samaritan Hospital comes out late on a Friday. If letters went out Wednesday, why didn’t they issue a press release then? More details have emerged on the Samaritan Hospital breach discussed previously on this blog. Bob Gardinier of the Times Union reports: Two nurses are targets of the…

Julia Filip reports that a potential class action lawsuit has been filed by three former patients of Dr. Nikita Levy against the Johns Hopkins Health System dba The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, in Baltimore City Circuit Court. The lawsuit arises from disclosures that Dr. Levy was secretly recording and photographing his…

Vulnerable individuals had their identity information sold by sleazy assisted living facilities employees to others who used it for Medicare and Medicaid fraud. A former health care clinic director and licensed therapist both pleaded guilty yesterday in connection with a health care fraud scheme involving defunct health provider Health Care Solutions Network Inc. (HCSN). Paul…

From NBC: The University of Connecticut Health Center is notifying patients about a privacy breach that could affect around 1,400 patient records. UConn Health Center issued a news release on Friday morning saying that a former employee, while employed for the center, inappropriately accessed approximately 1,400 patient records that were beyond the scope of the employee’s responsibilities….

Following a four-day jury trial in Baton Rouge, La., a federal jury convicted Angela Myers yesterday of wire fraud, making false claims, subscribing to false tax returns and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service announced. Based on the evidence presented at trial, Myers operated Angie’s Tax Service, a tax preparation business…