The Laborers’ Health & Welfare Trust Fund for Northern California has experienced a recent HIPAA security incident involving eligibility information. The Laborers’ Funds Administrative Office, who administers the Laborers’ Health & Welfare Trust Fund for Northern California, recently generated and distributed IRS Form 1095-B to plan participants. On February 17, 2016, the Fund Office discovered that due to a…
Category: Health Data
New details revealed in Signal Mountain identity theft case
WTVC has an update on a case that I hadn’t gotten around to reporting on yet, so…. The Signal Mountain Police Department has revealed new details in the case of a nurse’s assistant charged with identity theft. A post on the department’s Facebook page says 20-year-old Marcus Nix is accused of stealing information for several elderly victims…
NZ: Silverstream Health Centre patients reassured after email gaffe involving online patient portal
Blake Crayton-Brown reports: Patients at Silverstream Health Centre are being assured an accidental disclosure of patient information was a one-off. GP Dr Marko Kljakovic accidentally sent a message to all patients signed up to the centre’s Manage My Health portal early last week. The message, intended to be a reply to a single patient, contained advice about diet, instructions…
CA: St. Joseph Hospital data breach patients to receive settlement checks
St. Joseph Health patients whose medical information was released in a 2012 data breach will receive checks for $242 in April as part of a class-action settlement finalized last month. Nearly 31,000 people whose personal health information – including lab results and body mass indexes – was made available on the Internet will split $7.5…
Riverside woman to be sentenced for fraud, ID theft of 50 medical patients
Debbie L. Sklar reports: A Riverside woman is expected to be sentenced Monday to at least two years in federal prison for stealing the private information of more than 50 patients of a Long Beach residential medical facility. Bridgette Jackson, 45, was convicted by a Los Angeles federal jury in January of conspiring to possess more…
Stolen laptop with patient info returned; no evidence ever powered on
Wow. You don’t see this type of thing too often. Premier Healthcare has an important update to their breach notification of March 3 that affected 206,000 patients. From their statement today: Missing Premier Healthcare Laptop Recovered Last week, Premier Healthcare, LLC, a Bloomington, Indiana, based physician-led multispecialty healthcare provider group, reported that a laptop computer had been…