Andrew Cass reports: A former University Hospitals employee improperly accessed medical information of 677 patients at UH Geauga Medical Center, including personal information, according to a news release from UH. The information that may have been accessed includes names, dates of birth, medical record numbers and health information related to medications. According to the release,…
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Karmanos Cancer Center discloses lost flash drive contained patient info
It’s 2016. Why are people still mailing unencrypted flash drives with protected health information? This should be an automatic monetary penalty from OCR. It’s not, but it should be by now. Fox47 in Detroit reports that the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Center is notifying 2,808 patients and family members after they lost an unencrypted flash drive…
Former Healthcare Employee Indicted for Involvement in Stolen Identity Tax Refund Fraud Scheme and Unauthorized Disclosure of Patient Information
Another one of those all-too-infrequent criminal cases for violations of HIPAA, tacked on to the usual charges…. A Montgomery, Alabama resident self-surrendered earlier today after she was indicted March 3 on one count of multi-object conspiracy to commit identity theft and wire fraud, two counts of possessing 15 or more unauthorized access devices, two counts…
Ca: Patients notified after insider breach at Eastern Health
Tara Bradbury reports: With her daughter undergoing chemotherapy treatments for cancer, it’s understandable that Holly Denine’s heart jumps up in her throat every time her phone rings and a 777 number appears. Thursday morning, it happened — but it wasn’t bad news about the health of six-year-old Nevaeh. Eastern Health managers were calling to let…
AU: Five people charged for defrauding Medicare of more than $500,000 after police found thousands of stolen patient records
Martha Azzi reports: Five people have been charged with using fake and stolen medical records to defraud more than $500,000 from Medicare. Patient records illegally taken from a string of medical clinics in Sydney’s southwest have been used to lodge thousands of fraudulent claims, police say. Read more on Daily Mail.
Sask. health region employee who ‘snooped’ on 900+ records won’t get job back
Micki Cowan reports: A Saskatchewan X-ray technologist won’t be getting her job back after she was fired for “snooping” on hundreds of patient records without due cause, a breach of the Health Information Protection Act. A recently released labour arbitration decision shows that the employee — who claimed she was looking at the records for “educational purposes” — has been denied a…