CBC News reports that five laptops were stolen from the Edmonton offices of Alberta Health Services on the evening of January 25. Alberta Health Services confirmed the theft but did not say what information was on the devices. Police say no arrests have been made and the laptops have yet to be recovered. All AHS would say…
Category: Health Data
IA: Medicap Pharmacy warns of possible data breach (UPDATED)
Matthew Patane reports: Medicap Pharmacy is warning customers about a possible data breach. The company said in a notice that an external hard drive was “inadvertently” disposed of on Nov. 5, 2015. The hard drive contained personal information. Medicap believed all of the information was encrypted, but said it learned on Dec. 3 that some information did…
Administrative Law Judge rules in favor of OCR enforcement, requiring Lincare, Inc. to pay $239,800
A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) has ruled that Lincare, Inc. (Lincare) violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule and granted summary judgment to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on all issues, requiring Lincare to pay $239,800 in civil money penalties (CMPs)…
Hawai‘i Medical Service Association notifying members after mailing error exposed protected health information
The Hawai‘i Medical Service Association (HMSA) is notifying about 10,800 members that it mistakenly sent care management letters to incorrect addresses. The misrouted letters did NOT contain financial information, Social Security numbers, HMSA membership numbers, birth dates, claims information, or medical histories. The letters did include member names and steps they could take to identify…
Wayne Memorial Hospital fired nurse’s aide who accessed patient records without authorization
PA Homepage reports: A security breach at the Wayne Memorial Hospital in Honesdale causing concerns. Hospital officials tell Eyewitness News they have fired a nurses’s aide who they say accessed patient records without authorization. Now letters have been sent out to 390 people informing them their medical records, including social security numbers, insurance information and diagnoses…
LA: Medicaid fraud case had 13k victims (UPDATED)
Attorney General Jeff Landry announced Tuesday that Keisha Robinson, 43, has been arrested on charges involving schemes to defraud the state’s Medicaid program. Robinson was charged with one count of identity theft, one count of computer fraud, and one count of criminal conspiracy to commit Medicaid fraud after downloading over 13,000 Medicaid Recipient’s information from Louisiana…