A press release from the FBI, below, raises questions not only about fraud, but false notations in patients’ charts about treatment and the security of their charts. I am pleased to see that HHS was involved in this investigation and just wonder whether any corrective plan has been issued for the Temple University School of…
Category: Health Data
North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services Alerts Clients of Missing Records
George Crocker reports: North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) says a set of computer disks belonging to the Division of Services for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing (DSDHH) may have been accidentally discarded and taken to a landfill during a recent office renovation. The agency is alerting it’s (sic) clients…
NM: Former PHS employee sentenced to prison in medical ID theft/fraud scheme
This morning, Senior United States District Judge C. LeRoy Hansen sentenced Albuquerque resident Christine Horning, 35, to a 24-month term of imprisonment to be followed by four-years supervised release based on her guilty pleas to aggravated identity theft and health care fraud. Judge Hansen also ordered Horning to pay $24,679.48 in restitution to Medicaid and…
Ca: Patient info stolen from Bruyere
Doug Hempstead reports: Two computers containing patient information were stolen from the Bruyere Family Medicine Centre. The theft happened from the facility at 75 Bruyere St. Investigation revealed there was “a high probability” that password-protected patient data for some patients seen between 1971 and July 1, 2006 may have been archived on these computers. The…
Grays Harbor Pediatrics notifies patients after backup device stolen from employee's car
Great thanks to Grays Harbor Pediatrics for getting back to me with answers to some questions I sent them about their substitute notice concerning a stolen backup device. According to their emailed statement to this site, the backup device was stolen from the employee’s car. In response to my question as to whether the data…
Wentworth IT: Students' Personal and Medical Info Posted Online
Team 5 Investigates has learned that the personal information of as many as 1,300 current and former students at the Wentworth Institute of Technology was inadvertently put online. School officials notified all affected students of the data breach, which was reported to WIT on Dec. 22. The letter said that an “electronic file was accessible…