Lawyers for Olartino Dyoco, M.D., a physician in California, are notifying his patients that some of their information was on computers stolen during an office burglary. The burglary was discovered on June 2. The stored billing information included: Names and addresses, birth dates, telephone numbers, insurance numbers, treatment codes, and billing information” The incident was reported to the Fresno…
Category: Health Data
NZ: Investigation after doctors’ prescriptions strewn through neighbourhood
Jared Nicoll reports: An investigation is under way after piles of doctors’ prescriptions were found scattered through a Lower Hutt neighbourhood. Epuni St residents scraped up about 100 private prescriptions featuring patient’s names, addresses and medication from the road on Monday afternoon. They included a child’s asthma medication, and an elderly woman’s codeine prescription, issued…
Is the Veterans Administration doing enough in mitigating breaches? One veteran says “No.” Here’s why.
Benjamin Krause, an investigative reporter, Veterans law attorney, and a disabled veteran of the US Air Force, has a site called DisabledVeterans.org. One of his posts showed up in one of my searches, and I thought it was worth noting here. In the context of discussing a recent VA breach and government accountability, Benjamin writes: I personally had…
Athletics roiled by mass doping allegations after blood test leak
Karolos Grohmann reports: Endurance runners suspected of doping have been winning a third of Olympic and world championship medals, two news organizations said on Sunday, after a leak of thousands of blood test results from 2001-2012 threw global athletics into chaos. Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper and Germany’s ARD/WDR broadcaster said they had obtained the secret…
Potential Breach Of Privacy At Sioux Falls VA
KDLT reports that Sioux Falls VA Health Care System is notifying veterans that their personal information may have been compromised in a potential breach of privacy: Sioux Falls VA Officials say on June 4, 2015 a list of patients was reproduced whose February 2015 prescription fill documents cannot be located. Officials say the fill documents…
Four Sentenced For Filing Over 1100 Fraudulent Tax Returns In South Georgia
Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that the three following defendants were sentenced on July 27, 2015 in United States District Court by the Honorable W. Louis Sands, Senior U.S. District Court Judge. Patrice Taylor, age 34, of Ashburn, Georgia, was sentenced to serve 84 months in prison…