Wayne K. Routon reports: The last of five people accused of tax refund fraud involving identity theft from medical records pleaded guilty Friday for his role in the scheme, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer said. Michael Ali Bryant, Sr., 41, of Lauderdale Lakes, faces up to 12 years in prison at his sentencing scheduled in…
Category: Health Data
TX: State mental hospitals faulted for patient privacy breaches
Andrea Ball reports: A Big Spring State Hospital employee was fired last week after officials say she walked out of the psychiatric facility with 50 patients’ protected health records. A folder containing 47 pages of personal health information — including names, diagnoses and treatments — was discovered in a public trash bin off campus. It…
CN: Two hospital staff jailed for data theft
Global Times reports that a pharmacist and a buyer employed by Ruijin Hospital in Huangpu District (Shanghai, China) have both been sentenced to a year in jail for selling medication usage data to pharmaceutical companies. According to their report, which was based on coverage on Shanghai Television Station: Wang and Le had been working together…
Alberta's Privacy Commissioner launches privacy breach investigations
From the no-surprise dept., Alberta’s Privacy Commissioner announced an investigation into the Medicentres breach affecting 620,000: Information and Privacy Commissioner Jill Clayton has confirmed that she will launch an investigation into the recently reported Medicentres privacy breach, as well as a broader review of the way privacy breaches are reported in the health sector in this province….
Second Sentara Nurses Aide Sentenced For Conspiracy To Defraud The Government
There’s an update to a breach first reported on this blog in August 2013. Festus Ighalo, 37, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, was sentenced yesterday to 57 months in prison for conspiracy to defraud the government. Dana J. Boente, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; Thomas J. Kelly, Special Agent in Charge,…
CT: 850 St. Francis Hospital patients notified after records stolen from contract physician's car
NBC reports: Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center has reached out to more than 850 patients after records were stolen from a doctor’s vehicle in December to notify them of the privacy breach. The hospital released a statement saying it has notified 858 patients after learning that paper records were stolen from Dr. Bindu Vanapalli’s…