Holyoake describes themselves as a leading provider of drug and alcohol counselling and support services in Western Australia: Each year Holyoake helps more than 4,000 people by providing practical programs to address peoples’ alcohol and drug abuse issues, guiding people through challenging times and into a better future. I wonder how those clients would feel if…
Category: Health Data
UK: Blunder leads to leak of 500 patient email addresses
Another day, another e-mail gaffe. Will Cook reports: Bosses at Barnoldswick Medical Centre have apologised after a data breach led to almost 500 patient email addresses being circulated on a survey. Read more on Pendle Today.
Colorado nurse who defrauded Medicaid using medically fragile children’s claims sentenced to probation
Medicaid fraud can pose risks to the patients, particularly when the patients are not well enough or old enough to check any explanation of benefits statements for themselves. In this case, an adoptive/foster mother used medically fragile children’s information to defraud Medicaid. Luckily, the children were not harmed. Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman announced…
Speech Therapist Guilty of Health Care Fraud
Rebecca Lee Rabon, 44, of Houston, has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and five counts of health care fraud in relation to a health care fraud scheme that billed Tricare and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas more than $3.7 million, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Rabon…
Despite Wave Of Data Breaches, Official Says Patient Privacy Isn’t Dead
Charles Ornstein of Pro Publica talked with Jocelyn Samuels, director of OCR. You can read his interview on ProPublica.org. Pretty much everything they touched on has been discussed numerous times on PHIprivacy.net, so you may not find anything new in the interview if you were a regular reader of PHIprivacy.net, but I suppose it’s still reassuring…
IN: Community Health Network patient test results missing
Jordan Fischer reports: Hundreds of patients’ test results went missing last month from a Community Health Network office, the hospital network announced Friday. In February, the staff at Physician Network Practice, located in the 2000 block of North Shadeland Avenue, noticed a binder with results had disappeared. The binder contained more than 600 hemoglobin and…