On May 6, 2016, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland discovered a potential breach of patients’ personal health information. Hard copy patient records from August 1, 2008 – April 30, 2014 may have been accessed by unauthorized parties during the April 2016 closure and subsequent sale of our Dubuque health care center. This potential breach is…
Category: Health Data
UK: NHS seeks cure for its costly digital headache
Gill Hitchcock reports: This May two NHS trusts were fined almost £400,000 for failing to protect confidential information. Chelsea and Westminster revealed the email addresses of HIV service users, while Blackpool teaching hospitals published private information about thousands of staff online. But are these incidents simply isolated sloppiness or a growing problem as the NHS digitises its records?…
Texas podiatrist pleads not guilty to fraud, identity theft
Field Walsh reports: Local podiatrist Gregg Petty pleaded not guilty to fraud and identity theft at a hearing Wednesday in a Texarkana federal court. Petty, 52, appeared for arraignment with Texarkana attorney Thomas Johnson in the Texarkana Division of the Eastern District of Texas. Johnson entered pleas of not guilty on Petty’s behalf to 22…
YKHC Investigating Possible Credit Card Fraud Against Employees
Anna Rose MacArthur reports: Credit card information from Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation employees may have been compromised. YKHC and Bethel Police are investigating. Tiffany Zullkosky of YKHC says the alleged fraud may have been committed by a YKHC employee. The fraud would only affect employees who’ve used personal credit cards while booking combined personal and…
Business Associate’s Failure to Safeguard Nursing Home Residents’ PHI Leads to $650,000 HIPAA Settlement
This works out to over $1570 per record. Catholic Health Care Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia (CHCS) has agreed to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security Rule after the theft of a CHCS mobile device compromised the protected health information (PHI) of hundreds of nursing…
Massachusetts General Hospital Dental Group notifies patients of Patterson FTP server incident
Back in February, this site reported that a Patterson Dental anonymous FTP server was leaking patient data, according to a security researcher who had discovered the problem and reported it to them and then this site. One of the entities, the Massachusetts General Hospital Dental Group, had patient data caught up in that leak, and…