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: Theft
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,…
NL: Records of 781 cancer patients stolen from hospital car park
Negligence and laziness are not uniquely American phenomena. In this case, the researcher was violating policy, with all-too-predictable results: A hard drive containing the medical records of 781 cancer patients has been stolen from a researcher at Amsterdam’s Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital. The drive, which was not secured with a password, was taken from the boot…
Eye Institute of Corpus Christi notifies patients of breach
Here’s yet another case where patients’ personal information and protected health information was stolen and used to solicit patients to another practice. The Eye Institute of Corpus Christi, through its external counsel, disclosed that on January 6, they learned that individuals associated with doctors formerly employed by the Eye Institute copied the patient database and provided…
Stolen contractor laptop had special-education student data for Montgomery County students
Donna St. George reports: A contractor working with the Montgomery County school system has informed the parents of about 340 special-education students that the children’s private data was on a computer stolen during a break-in. WestEd, a nonprofit research organization, acquired the student data from Montgomery County school officials as it conducted a review of…