Akanksha Jayanthi reports that Oneida Health Center in Wisconsin has reported a data breach after a flash drive containing details of patients’ dental information was stolen. The health center, which serves a federally recognized tribe of Onedia people in the Oneida Nation, reported the theft to law enforcement Feb. 17, the same day the flash…
Category: Health Data
Chicago medical records exchange sues IT vendor
Joseph Conn reports: The hospital association that operates a major Chicago-area health information exchange is suing its health information technology vendor that abruptly announced it will go out of business. The hospital Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council, now merged with the Illinois Health and Hospital Association, operates the MetroChicago HIE that connects more than 30 northeastern…
Two More Arrested in Fraud Scheme Involving Student Identity Information, One Still at Large
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, with the assistance of the Orlando Police Department, today arrested two individuals for participating in a scheme to defraud the Medicaid program using teenagers’ personal identity information. Wendy Leiba of Longwood, 53, and Bobby Lyons of Winter Garden, 50, allegedly assisted Orlando-based companies to fraudulently bill Medicaid…
Charge laid against Manitoba Health employee accused of inappropriately accessing health information
CTV reports: A charge has been laid against a former Manitoba Health employee for accessing personal health information inappropriately. The office of the Manitoba Ombudsman said it conducted an investigation after a report of a privacy breach at Manitoba Health’s Provincial Drug Program. The Ombudsman said a former employee who had access to personal health…
Wyoming Medical Center reports patient record breach
Laura Hancock reports: Records of nearly 3,200 Wyoming Medical Center patients may have been accessed in February, the hospital reported Thursday. On Feb. 25, an unidentified third party had access for 15 minutes to two Wyoming Medical Center email accounts containing patient records, the Casper hospital said in a statement. The records contained patient names,…
‘Stolen’ medical records from Prime Medical clinic found flying around Melbourne park
Julia Medew reports: Medical files belonging to at least a dozen patients have allegedly been stolen from a Melbourne GP clinic and dumped in a park, exposing people’s most intimate personal history. The privacy breach also puts the patients at risk of identity theft because the files included their full name, address, date of birth,…