Category: Health Data

There are some details I routinely look for in breach reports.  So when I saw a breach report yesterday that indicated the breach occurred in August 2011 and wasn’t discovered until June 27, 2013, it caught my eye. According to a letter sent this week to affected customers and patients,  San Jose Medical Supply Company…

This “human error” thing is getting tiring. Requests from patients for medical records are a routine task for hospitals.  “I went to the hospital and was given a form to fill out for medical records,” said Micki Thoms. Thoms asked for her records after undergoing surgery at Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point in Hudson, and…

A nurse from Staten Island, New York has been charged with stealing the identity information of 80 patients at South Shore Physicians, P.C., the medical practice where she was employed between 2004 and 2012.  Read more on NY Post.

I’ve previously covered a situation involving Monroeville’s  911 dispatch system sharing emergency call information with parties who had no legitimate need to be informed.  There’s now an update to the case, although the case is still open. Kyle Lawson reports: An investigator hired by Monroeville determined that former Police Chief Doug Cole should have acted…

Betty Cole, a South Miami Hospital who stole 800 patients’ information for a tax refund fraud ring, pleaded guilty  yesterday.  Additional background on this case can be found on this blog here and here.  As of today’s date, it would appear that HHS’s investigation of the incident has not been closed.

Anna Gorman and Abby Sewell  report that five employees and a student research assistant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have been fired for inappropriately accessing 14 medical records in a one-week period last month. Four were employees of community physicians who have medical staff privileges at the hospital, one was a medical assistant employed by Cedars-Sinai, and…