Category: Health Data

Advanced Data Processing (ADPI),  handles billing for a number of ambulance services throughout the U.S. The Florida-headquartered firm  notified the California Attorney General’s Office this week that on October 1, they discovered a rogue employee had been accessing and disclosing patient information to others who used the information to file fraudulent tax returns to obtain refunds.  According…

If you’ve been reading my blog for a few years, you’ll likely remember the case where Shasta Regional Medical Center and Prime Healthcare Services disclosed a patient’s records to the media, claiming that because the patient had talked to the media, she had waived confidentiality.  The case was initially reported in January, and I posted an update in May…

I’ve covered cases of snooping employees a number of times on this blog, but for a quick overview of some of the cases that made the media in the U.S., here’s an article by William H. Maruca of Fox Rothschild on Lexology.com,

Two hospitals are reporting breaches involving x-ray films. WITN reports that a North Carolina hospital, Vidant Pungo Hospital, is sending letters to as many of the 1,100 affected patients as they can find, after paper jackets with old radiology films were accidentally sent out with the trash to a local landfill.The paper jackets contained the…

Tomoya Shimura reports: Medical records at the Westside Park Elementary School Based Health Center may have been accessed when the county clinic was burglarized, San Bernardino County officials said Tuesday. Staff at the clinic in the 18200 block of Casaba Road discovered the burglary on Oct. 1. In addition to damages to the building, office…

Aha. We now have some information on a breach that had been posted to HHS’s breach tool on October 19.  At that time, I had blogged: 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 –…