UW Health announced today that it is sending letters to certain patients about a privacy incident. UW Health learned on August 3, 2016, that patient satisfaction surveys were addressed “To the parents or guardians [patient’s name]” of some adult patients and mailed between July 29, 2016, and August 2, 2016. The enclosed cover letter was…
Category: Health Data
Millions of Australians caught in health records breach
Karen Middleton reports: When she addressed the annual conference of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in Perth last week, Health Minister Sussan Ley was already in a hostile environment. […] Ley revealed that the health department had inadvertently committed a potentially serious breach of the Privacy Act by deliberately publishing supposedly anonymous Medicare…
NY: Corinth pharmacist used customer ID to steal opioid
Times Union reports: A Saratoga County pharmacist was arrested Monday after she assumed a customer’s identity in order to steal hydrocodone, the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office said Mary B. Murphy, 48, of Ballston Spa, was charged with second-degree forgery and first-degree identity theft and falsifying a business record. Read more on Times Union.
Ex-Arkansas hospital orderly sentenced for identity theft
AP reports: A Texas man has been sentenced to two years in prison for theft and for stealing the identities of patients at an Arkansas hospital where he was an orderly. Federal court records show 28-year-old Sir John Ashley Holliday of Dallas was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Little Rock after pleading guilty in May…
CA: Apria Healthcare notifies patients of breach
Apria Healthcare today announced a data security incident involving unauthorized access to an employee’s email account. Apria Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading providers of home respiratory services and certain medical equipment. Affected individuals may have received certain medical equipment from Apria Healthcare. On August 5, 2016, Apria Healthcare discovered that the email account of…
Ca: Patient information shows up at wrong Corner Brook company
Colleen Connors reports: Western Health faces a privacy breach after 10 pages of patient information were incorrectly sent to a company in Corner Brook Tuesday. The documents include patient names, phone numbers and information pertaining to their doctors. The paperwork also listed medical transportation expenses required for patients living at BayShore Estates, a personal care home…