West Berkshire Council is taking remedial action after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found it in breach of the Data Protection Act (DPA) following the loss of a USB stick containing the sensitive personal information of children and young people. The memory stick, which was unencrypted and not password protected, contained, among other things, information…
Category: Health Data
Hospice laptop with personal info stolen
Park Ridge-based Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care is alerting patients after a laptop computer containing patients’ personal information was stolen during a nurse’s home visit in April. The theft occurred April 12 in Chicago, Rainbow Hospice announced publicly last week. The computer contained patient names, addresses, social security numbers, insurance information, medications, treatments and diagnoses,…
Owner and operator of behavioral counseling company convicted of health care fraud
Edward Birts, of Houston, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud and aggravated identity theft arising from his role in a health care fraud scheme in which Medicare and Medicaid were fraudulently billed for psychiatric counseling services, U.S. Attorney José Angel Moreno and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced…
Missing records on stolen laptop from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Unencrypted. Employee’s car. Pardon me while I spit. Peggy O’Farrell reports (emphasis added by me): Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is beefing up its computer security after a laptop computer containing more than 61,000 patient records was stolen. The laptop was stolen from a hospital employee’s personal vehicle while it was parked outside the employee’s…
Missing records on stolen laptop from Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Peggy O’Farrell reports: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is beefing up its computer security after a laptop computer containing more than 61,000 patient records was stolen. The laptop was stolen from a hospital employee’s personal vehicle while it was parked outside the employee’s home in late March. Cincinnati police were notified of the theft. The…
CO: Boulder Community Hospital: 79 patients had medical records exposed
Vanessa Miller reports: After an extensive investigation of a reported theft of medical records from two clinics in the Boulder Community Hospital’s network earlier this year, officials have determined that 79 patients had their personal information exposed. Hospital spokesman Rich Sheehan said the information theft was confined to patients of the Family Medical Associates clinic…