In a statement released on Wednesday, Prompt Med, which took over Battleground Urgent Care, said they regret the incident in which hundreds of medical files were discovered in a Greensboro dumpster: Prompt Med Management Company, Inc. regrets the incident regarding transportation of patients’ medical records that occurred last week. These files were being transferred to…
Category: Health Data
ID theft nets $45,000 in medical care
Police charged a Knightdale man today with attempting to receive medical treatment valued at more than $40,000 from a local hospital by using another person’s identity, court records show. WakeMed police charged Stephen Thomas Mullen Jr. with one felony count of obtaining property by false pretenses, according to an arrest warrant filed this morning at…
Ex-hospital worker arrested in ID thefts
East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputies have arrested a former Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center employee for allegedly stealing the personal information of 46 patients. Authorities say 25-year-old Damian Raby took the information in 2006 when he worked for the hospital and since then has opened 46 debit cards and has fraudulently…
4 years in prison for hospital worker
As a follow-up to a case covered previously: A hospital worker who admitted to stealing about 20 patient records a week out of Saint Anthony Hospital to give them to a convicted counterfeiter was sentenced on Monday to four years in the Department of Corrections. Dawn Philbin, 51, reached a plea deal in Denver County…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Alexis Brooke Faison of Durham was charged with 10 counts of identity theft and using a computer to collect fraudulent information following a month-long investigation by Alamance County and Durham detectives. More. A Wendy’s worker, Demetrish McAllister, has been arrested and charged with keeping and using customers’ debit cards. More. In…
Administration defends security of health IT
Privacy and security issues are priorities for the administration when it comes to electronic health records, said government officials and members of a health information technology panel this week. “Fundamentally, we recognize that meaningful use [of health IT] unquestionably brings in the privacy and security risks to the provider and to the consumers and that…