Category: Health Data

Denise Allabaugh reports: Hazleton resident Shannon Konopinski worries her personal health information and family medical history could end up on the Internet and she has contacted lawyers. She is upset about a letter she received stating that a former Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center physician sent her protected health information to his home e-mail in…

Christina Dickinson and Dave Delozier report: It was the last thing Harold Morton expected to find while taking some recyclables out to the alley behind his home. When he walked past a Dumpster, he saw it in a cardboard box: a thick blue binder. “I picked the book up and I opened it and right…

Kendra Yagow reports: Deaconess Hospital is out $50,000 in what authorities are calling a case of identity theft. Evansville Police were received a call on Monday after a hospital worker reported a patient received services, but it was his brother who got the bill, and he doesn’t even live in Indiana. […] Police don’t know…

Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System has posted the following announcement to their site: In accordance with Geisinger Health System policy and applicable federal regulations, Geisinger Health System has notified approximately 2,928 patients that some of their Protected Health Information (PHI) has been disclosed in an unauthorized manner. On November 6, 2010, Geisinger became aware that on…

Julie McKinnon reports: Mercy Wednesday revealed that unsecured copies of parts of more than 1,000 patient medical and employee records were left at the former Riverside Hospital after the facility was sold in 2003, although it does not appear they were inappropriately used. The hospital system was notified in late November about the files that…