Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed a lawsuit yesterday against Accretive Health, Inc., a debt collection agency that is part of a New York private equity fund conglomerate, for failing to protect the confidentiality of patient health care records and not disclosing to patients its extensive involvement in their health care through its role in…
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Ca: Privacy Commissioner Secures Abandoned Medical Records at RSRS; Rural Doctor's Lack of Proper Care is Met With Swift Response to Protect Patients
A somewhat self-serving, but still relevant, press release from RSRS: Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner Dr. Ann Cavoukian, has once again asserted her commitment to the protection and security of confidential medical information after hundreds of personal medical records were discovered scattered amongst debris in an abandoned rural property in the town of Newcastle, Ontario….
Podiatrist Used the Identity of 200 Nursing Home Patients to Submit False Bills
A Gambrills, Maryland podiatrist was sentenced today to 54 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for health care fraud and aggravated identity theft. A statement issued by the U.S. Attorney for Maryland noted that Larry Bernhard, age 56, was also ordered to pay restitution of $1,122,992.08 for fraudulently billing Medicare. According…
A significant detail in the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust breach?
Today’s Out-law.com reports that the individual who stole hard drives from the hospital and then sold them on eBay was an employee of the contractor they had hired to destroy the drives. Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust told Out-Law.com that hard drives containing patient data had been sold on the auction website by…
UK: Health worker convicted of obtaining patient details unlawfully
A former health worker has pleaded guilty to unlawfully obtaining patient information by accessing the medical records of five members of her ex-husband’s family in order to obtain their new telephone numbers. Juliah Kechil, formerly known as Merritt, a former Health Care Assistant in the outpatients department at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, was convicted…
More breaches without details…
Some breaches newly added to HHS’s breach tool that I haven’t found details on yet: “KCI USA, Inc.”,TX,,567,9/8/2011,Theft, Other Portable Electronic Device, 12/8/2011, Rite Aid Corporation,PA,,”2,900″, 10/7/2011, Other, Paper, 1/10/2011, State of Tennessee Sponsored Group Health Plan,TN,,”1,770″, 10/6/2011, Unauthorized Access/Disclosure, Paper,1/10/2011, (previously reported on DataBreaches.net) Advanced Occupational Medicine Specialists, IL , Blue Vantage Group, “7,226”,…