Jacquie Miller reports: Who’s shopping at Ottawa’s largest local marijuana dispensary chain? That information has been widely shared after Magna Terra Health Services accidentally sent an email to nearly 500 “clients and friends” that listed all their email addresses. Some Magna Terra customers who want to keep their medical marijuana purchases private are upset. Magna…
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GA: Martin Army Community Hospital can’t individually notify 1,000 patients impacted by insider breach that began in 2011
Larry Gierer reports: All patients who received care through the Martin Army Community Hospital healthcare system are alerted that a possible HIPAA breach occurred at Fort Benning between January 2011 and December 2013. According to a news release on Sunday, the breach was discovered after the hospital was alerted of undetected criminal activity involving identity…
MS: Urgent Care Clinic of Oxford notifies patients of ransomware attack
Urgent Care Clinic of Oxford is notifying patients seen prior to August 2, 2016 of what sounds like a ransomware attack. In their notification letter, they say that sometime in early July, their server was hacked. The breach was discovered on August 2nd when staff noticed the computer system running more slowly than usual. From the sound of their…
Former Employee of Rhode Island Pain Clinic Charged in Connection with Fraudulent Billing Scheme
BOSTON – A former employee of a pain management clinic was charged Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a scheme to falsify patient medical records in order to obtain payments from the Medicare program and commercial insurance companies. Moustafa Moataz Aboshady, 33, an Egyptian national residing in Lake Forest, Calif., was indicted…
UPDATE: 5,000 Marin Medical Practices Concepts patient records lost during recovery from ransomware attack
In August, I noted a ransomware attack on Marin Medical Practices Concepts (MMPC), a business associate providing billing and EMR services to many physicians. The ransomware prevented the physicians from accessing patient records for more than 10 days, and Marin decided to pay an undisclosed amount of ransom. In an August 4 statement, however, they…
City Hall mum on burglary at Mama Lucy Hospital, medical records, vouchers gone
Chrispinus Wekesa reports: The Nairobi government has remained silent after the Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital was burglaried (sic) and medical records stolen. Staff at the hospital said on Tuesday night, unknown people broke into the procurement office and stole medical records. Health CEC Bernard Muia and superintendent Musa Mohamed were reluctant to speak to the Star….