Patients who had lab work done during the past three-and-a-half years, at East Central Regional Hospital, may want to double check their credit information. The GBI is investigating since a former technician at the hospital took home a number of records from the Augusta and Gracewood locations. Hospital officials don’t think any Social Security numbers…
Category: Health Data
Two to plead guilty to fraud, HIPAA violations
United States Attorney Joyce White Vance announced that Isaac Earl Smith, 38, and Annetra Poole-Moore, 37, have agreed to plead guilty to federal crimes involving health care fraud, disclosures prohibited by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and aggravated identify theft. Between about September 2008 and April 2009, Smith, of Pleasant Grove, and…
German Data Protection Authority Issues € 36,000 Fine Against Lidl for Collection of Employee Health Data
On August 19, 2009, the state DPA in North Rhine-Westphalia fined a subsidiary of the discount supermarket chain Lidl € 36,000 (approximately $51,000) for illegally keeping records of employee health data. The case was triggered by a report in the German news magazine Der Spiegel. A Bochum resident found papers and forms containing Lidl employees’…
St. Luke's worker accused of stealing and using Allentown patient's credit card
One of those “small” cases that are of, course, not “small” at all to those affected: A St. Luke’s Hospital-Allentown employee has been charged with stealing a patient’s credit card and using it to make $179 in purchases at the Kohl’s store in Whitehall Township. Luz Davilla, 34, of 1839 W. Hamilton St., Allentown, was…
Former State Employee Faces Theft Charges
A former employee of the Oregon Department of Human Services has been indicted on accusations he stole at least $14,750 in state money. The worker, 34-year-old Naudaan Hurh, faces 18 felony counts, including charges of aggravated theft, identity theft and computer crime, Attorney General John Kroger said in a news release. Read more on KPTV
Laptops containing medical details of Birmingham patients stolen
In the U.K.: Laptops containing the private and medical details of more than 7,000 Birmingham NHS patients, including sick children, have been stolen prompting a massive security alert. Surgical firm Trulife used by four hospitals – Birmingham Children’s Hospital, City Hospital, in Winson Green, Sandwell Hospital, in West Bromwich, and Rowley Regis Hospital – has…