WMUR reports: Speare Memorial Hospital in Plymouth (New Hampshire) is warning patients that a laptop computer with patient information was stolen last month. Officials said the computer was in an employee’s locked car in Boston on April 3. It contained patient names, addresses, hospital account numbers, medical record numbers, and other patient and health information….
Category: Health Data
Woman Arrested for Identity Theft While Temping for Doctor's Office
Chandra Johnson Greene reports Stamford police arrested a 42-year-old Mount Vernon, NY, woman Monday afternoon for making fraudulent charges to credit cards she had access to while doing temp work for a Stamford-based doctor’s office. According to Sgt. Robert Shawinsky, Melba Witter of 461 South 3rd Ave. was employed by Staff Providers, a Wilton-based staffing…
IL: Police shut down identity theft operation at clinic
Chicago police have located the hub of an identity theft operation and have arrested the two women coordinating the scheme. Carmencita Kennedy, the reception at Woman to Woman Healthcare on the South Loop, has been charged with organizing a long-term financial crimes enterprise. Police say the 32 year old has stolen the identities of at…
Police shut down identity theft operation at clinic
Chicago police have located the hub of an identity theft operation and have arrested the two women coordinating the scheme. Carmencita Kennedy, the reception at Woman to Woman Healthcare on the South Loop, has been charged with organizing a long-term financial crimes enterprise. Police say the 32 year old has stolen the identities of at…
Omnicare notifies almost 9,000 that their Social Security numbers and protected health information were on a stolen laptop
Omnicare Inc. of Kentucky recently notified 8,845 patients who had protected health information on a laptop that was stolen on January 19. The firm, which provides pharmaceutical care for seniors, posted a statement on their web site for those using pharmacies in North Carolina: On January 19, 2011, a laptop computer was stolen that contained…
Phoenix dentists notify 10,000 patients about stolen portable device.
Dentists Brian J. Daniels, D.D.S. and Paul R. Daniels, D.D.S. of Phoenix, Arizona recently notified 10,000 patients that a portable device stolen on March 2, contained protected health information. There is no notice on their web site other than: HIPAA Breach Information for Patients of Record Certain electronically-stored patient records were stolen on March 2,…