Jennifer Parks reports: … Department of Insurance investigators say an Armenian mob ring somehow stole 128 different patients’ records from the Minor family clinic in Phoenix and then started operating an insurance fraud scheme out of vacant office buildings. Investigators say 23-year-old Gevorg Melkonyan of Glendale, Calif. and 44-year old Elina Arutyunova of Phoenix set up…
Category: Health Data
Missing hard drive from WTC Medical Monitoring Program at Mt. Sinai contained PHI
A missing – and most likely stolen – hard drive from the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program at Mt. Sinai Hospital contained e-mails with some some protected health information. The drive was taken from a computer in the Mental Health Center. According to a notification letter (Page 1 Page 2) sent to those…
OH: Miami Valley Hospital employees breached crash victim’s privacy
Ben Sutherly reports: A Mason man seriously injured in a sensational crash on Interstate 675 that drew national attention received a certified letter Tuesday from Miami Valley Hospital notifying him that four hospital employees had inappropriately accessed his medical records. In a letter dated Oct. 20, hospital Privacy Officer Cindy Howley wrote that employees had…
Should HHS fine entities who experience repeated avoidable security failures?
I’m working on a breach post for later today but started mulling over the question of whether HHS needs to start fining covered entities who have repeat breaches where the entity did not seem to adequately harden their security after the first breach or to really learn from experience. This is 2010. The excuse “we…
Theft of patients' records nets the max in prison
Jay Weaver follows up on his earlier report: If Ruben E. Rodriguez — sitting in a wheelchair — was looking for sympathy at his sentencing Monday for pilfering more than 3,000 Jackson Memorial Hospital patient records, he came to the wrong place. U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard sentenced Rodriguez to 11 years in prison for…
Florida businessman to be sentenced for stealing patient records from Jackson Memorial
Jay Weaver reports: A Miami-Dade businessman who pleaded guilty to pilfering thousands of patient records to sell to lawyers for injury claims faces up to 12 years in prison at his sentencing in federal court Monday afternoon. Ruben E. Rodriguez, 62, admitted he stole Jackson Memorial Hospital records of patients’ names, addresses, telephone numbers and…