University of Florida officials have notified 2,047 people that their Social Security or Medicaid identification numbers were included on address labels affixed to letters inviting them to participate in a research study. The letters were sent through the U.S. Postal Service on May 24, and the information also was shared with a telephone survey company….
Category: Health Data
Attorney General Reaches Settlement Over Lost Hard Drive With Medical Information On 1.5 Million Health Net Customers
Matthew Sturdevant reports: Health Net of the Northeast will be required to pay a “significant sum and spend even more to upgrade security” because of a hard-drive lost last year that contained medical information of 1.5 million Health Net customers in four states — including 446,000 in Connecticut, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s office said Tuesday….
NC: Lawyer: Records dump a mix-up
Amanda Chan reports: Boxes of patient records from a Charlotte psychologist’s practice were left at a county recycling facility last week because the psychologist’s sons mistakenly took the wrong boxes to be recycled, his attorney said Thursday. Sean Timmons, who represents Carolina Center for Development and Rehabilitation and its owner Ervin Batchelor, said that because…
Lawsuit filed over UMC patient records leak
Steve Green reports: The fallout continued Friday over the Sun’s disclosure in November that confidential patient information was being leaked from University Medical Center. A lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed in District Court in Clark County against UMC and the man indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the patient privacy scandal….
Almost Five Years in Prison for Pharmacy Owner Slash Identity Thief
Lucian Constantin reports: A pharmacy owner from Maryland was sentenced to 57 months in prison for misusing her customers’ personal information and selling mislabeled meds. The identity thief filed fake reimbursement claims for inexistent prescription refills in the name of other patients. According to authorities, Pamela Arrey, 49, owned two pharmacies in Baltimore, operating under…
Hospitals sued over HIV diagnosis
Jane Chen reports: Two hospitals in Xi’an City, capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, have been sued for allegedly wrongly diagnosing a 70-year-old woman as HIV positive and publishing her details online. The woman surnamed Cao yesterday handed in her lawsuit to Xishan District People’s Court in her hometown in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s…