Bob Brewin reports: The Veterans Affairs Department’s inspector general has launched a criminal investigation into a physician assistant’s alleged downloading of veterans’ clinical data at its Atlanta medical center, sources have told Nextgov. The assistant allegedly recorded two sets of patient data on to a personal laptop for research purposes. One set included three years’…
Category: Health Data
Medical Files, Pills Found In Abandoned St. Bernard Nursing Home
Maya Rodriguez reports from Louisiana on how confidential medical files were found inside the Huntington Place Senior Community. The building had been flooded during Hurricane Katrina and subsequently abandoned: When Nicholas and his friend, Christian, went into the building to get the dog out, they stumbled upon several filing cabinets, filled with medical records of…
Server theft at Arkansas eye clinic could affect 9,000 people
Louis Short of the Sun-Times reports: A burglary overnight Wednesday has the potential to affect approximately 9,000 people. A computer server was stolen from McNair Eye Center on Industrial Park Road, east of Heber Springs. The server contains information for approximately 9,000 patients. So far, no detail on what kinds of patient information were on…
Feds indict couple again in theft, sale of patients’ data
Jay Weaver reports: Last year, they were charged with running a racket to pilfer patient records from Jackson Memorial Hospital to sell to lawyers for personal-injury claims. Now Ruben E. Rodriguez and wife Maria Victoria Suarez have been indicted again for paying an ambulance-company employee to steal information on patients transported to Miami-Dade hospitals and…
NHS in confidential data blunder in Cambridgeshire
Letters sent out to patients about the national NHS records database contained confidential data about other people, the BBC has learned. A review has taken place after letters containing personal information were sent to the wrong patients in Cambridgeshire, BBC Look East found. The letters contain details about which surgery the person attends and their…
4 accused of ID theft plot with 125 victims
Erica Blake reports: As part of their employment with various Toledo-area businesses, Robert L. Taylor, Adam R. Shank, and Dominique L. Lawson had access to clients’ names, birthdates, and Social Security numbers, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. But instead of keeping the information confidential, the three allegedly sold the identities – more than 125 of…