Shore News Today in New Jersey reports: An Absecon woman was arrested Wednesday, Sept. 2 for allegedly accessing someone’s medical records on the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center computer network, according to Atlantic County Prosecutor Ted Housel. Mildred Zamot, 30, accessed the records May 14 while she was working at Atlantic Gastroenterology Associates in Egg Harbor…
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Suit alleges patient confidentiality breach
Jeff Tucker reports: A Pueblo West man has filed a lawsuit against the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center on behalf of his daughter, who sought treatment at the university hospital in Denver and was sent to a New Mexico prison for her trouble. Kimberly K. Lusardi, 36, is serving an eight-year sentence in New…
UK: Personal data stolen with Powys LHB laptop
More on the Trulife laptop theft from 2008 that was never reported until mid-2009: A computer containing personal information about patients who have visited Powys teaching Local Health Board’s (tLHB) orthotics department has been stolen. Remarkably this incident happened in February 2008 but the third party in charge of the laptop only informed Powys tLHB…
Navy laptop with personal info missing
Liz Nelson reports: Naval Hospital Pensacola will be notifying thousands of beneficiaries who use its pharmacy services, following the disappearance of a laptop computer August 18 which contains personally identifiable information. The computer’s database contains a registry of 38,000 pharmacy service customers’ names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth on all patients that used…
Hospital patients records taken (updated)
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…
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…