Category: Health Data

Jon Burstein of the Sun-Sentinel brings us up-to-date on a case of medical identity theft covered previously on this site. A Tamarac woman who broke the law to get bigger breast implants was sentenced Monday morning to two and a half years in federal prison. Shatarka Nuby, 29, pleaded guilty in August to aggravated identity theft and a…

Confidential patient information has been inadvertently posted on a website in an NHS blunder. Patients’ names, dates of birth, NHS numbers and treatment and procedures were inadvertently included in an electronic spreadsheet file which formed part of a response to a Freedom of Information request sent out in May last year. The information was later…

As a small update to the Holy Cross Hospital breach reported previously on this site: Holy Cross’s report to HHS indicates that 1500 patients were affected by the July 27th theft of paper records. It’s not clear why the hospital took until Dec. 2 to report the incident to HHS as it had publicly revealed…

Manor Care of Indy (South), LLC in Indianapolis recently notified HHS that 845 individuals were notified of a breach involving their PHI. The breach type was coded as “Unauthorized Access/Disclosure, Paper Records.” I cannot find a web site or any additional information on this incident at this time. Prime Home Care, LLC of Nebraska reported…

The following press release was issued Nov. 22 and refers to a VA incident originally discussed in a previous blog entry. Last month, the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center discovered a handwritten log book with 1,950 patients’ names and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers was missing from a respiratory laboratory. After an extensive…