Category: Health Data

The man who pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to receive and disclose University Medical Center of Southern Nevada (UMC) patient records in order to solicit clients for personal injury attorneys, was sentenced on May 4 to 33 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release. Richard W. Charette, 55, of Las Vegas,…

KEZI in Oregon reports: A Reedsport clinic is alerting patients about a recent data breach. Police are looking for a hard drive containing patient information from Dunes Family Health Care. The organization that downloads and stores the clinic’s electronic records says it went missing on March 11. The clinic sent notices to more than 16,000…

A computer stolen from the home office of a Reid Hospital employee in early April may have contained files with personally identifiable information on approximately 20,000 Reid patients. Craig Kinyon, Reid president/CEO, said the computer was password protected and was one of numerous items stolen in the break-in, which indicates the information was not the…

Sarah Horner reports the follow-up to a breach that I knew nothing about: Thirty-two employees of Allina Hospitals and Clinics were fired yesterday for looking at medical records of patients involved in a recent mass overdose in Blaine without having any professional reason to do so, an Allina spokesman said. Twenty-eight employees were let go…