Category: Health Data

As noted yesterday, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida was one of four entities added to HHS’s breach tool as recently reporting a breach.  I contacted BCBSFL and they kindly sent me a link to a press release they had issued on March 7 explaining the incident: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Corrects…

None of the following incidents appear to be reported on entities’ web sites or in the media sources I check, so here is how HHS reports them on their breach tool and I will try to find out more about them: JEFFREY J. SMITH, MD,OK,,600,11/24/2010,Loss ,Desktop Computer/Other Portable Electronic Device,, Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital,TX,,…

Maura Lerner of the Star Tribune reports: In February, staffers at Fairview Health Services in Minneapolis packed up about 1,200 patient records for shipping to a new office across town. Unfortunately, no one at Fairview has seen the box since. This week, officials began notifying patients that their health and billing records — including names,…

Guillermo Contreras reports: A San Antonio man pleaded guilty this week to possessing numerous medical files stolen from an area doctor, while a local woman was indicted separately for using stolen identifying information in a bank fraud scam. Douglas Allen Ewert, 28, entered the guilty plea Tuesday to fraud related to stolen identification documents after…