This is a follow-up to the University of Texas Medical Branch breach previously reported here and here. United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that in Waco, 34-year-old Katina Candrick of LaGrange, Texas, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $163,185.19 restitution for unlawful possession of fraudulent identification documents and…
Category: Health Data
Orange Regional Medical Center asks investigators for info on breach
Following revelations yesterday by the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office of a massive Medicare fraud scam that utilized patient data stolen, in part, from Orange Regional Medical Center in New York, I asked the center whether they had known about the breach when it occurred in 2005 and whether and when patients were notified of…
Now if it was your medical info, how would you feel?
On June 10, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield notified the Maryland Attorney General’s Office of a breach involving member information. According to their letter, a CareFirst associate leaving the Canton office did not transport member information securely. As a result, part of a member’s file fell out of the associate’s bag, where it was discovered by someone…
VA monthly report for September reveals possible access control issue
The Department of Veterans Affairs has released its monthly report to Congress on data breaches. For the period August 30 – October 3, the reported incidents included: 33 incidents involving mis-mailed prescription medication packages by the Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy [out of 7,144,426 total packages (10,510,547 total prescriptions) and 60 Mis-Handling incidents (these might involve…
CIO Fired After Others May Have Accessed Her EHR
Gerry Higgins writes: A prominent CIO of a regional hospital system encountered the limitations of HIPAA and so-called “Protected Health Information (PHI)” when her boss fired her after a short medical leave of absence. After years working without taking vacation, a family catastrophe that affected her health prompted her to take a medical leave of…
A third of Spanish hospitals breach the Data Protection Act
One in three Spanish hospitals are in breach of the Data Protection behave, disturbing research has revealed. Some 30 per cent of public hospitals have no measures in place to prevent the loss of, or unauthorised access to, patients’ data during transport or whilst filed. A further 40 per cent of state hospitals, and 15…