Category: Health Data

It seems that Baltimore-based Mercy Health Systems (Mercy Medical Center) forgot to notify Maryland about a breach involving Maryland residents earlier this year. According to an August 13 letter signed by Chante Tindal, Compliance Generalist: on January 14, MHS’s  transcription contractor, Allscripts, reported a missing unencrypted hard drive containing patient information. MHS says this was reported…

Another healthcare provider has pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud. The North Carolina Department of Justice reports that Dr. Francis Bald, a North Carolina dentist, has pleaded guilty to charges related to falsely billing Medicaid for dental and oral surgery services. The fraud was uncovered by an observant patient who read his Explanation of Benefits (EOB) statement…

If you’re a privacy professional or information security professional looking for a cautionary tale or a nightmare case to use in your presentations, this may be it.  In reading about this case, however, keep in mind that there has never been any indication that patient misinformation was disclosed improperly or that it has been misused….

Just received this press release from Cause of Action with LabMD’s response to FTC’s complaint: Cause of Action (CoA), a government accountability organization, filed an answer to an aggressive and arbitrary enforcement action brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against LabMD, a small cancer diagnosis company. CoA is defending LabMD against a complaint brought by the FTC in…

Nancy Loo reports that more than a decade after its closing, medical records have been found at the abandoned Edgewater Hospital on Chicago’s North side. A joint WGN – Chicago Tribune investigation has confirmed an extraordinary situation involving medical records at the old hospital.  And as Nancy Loo reports, not only were medical files left…