From LocalNews8: UnitedHealthcare said some Idaho customers enrolled in its Medicare plans may have had their identities stolen. “On Jan. 30, 2012, the company discovered that a former employee, during the course of his employment, may have accessed information in a database in a way that was inconsistent with his job duties,” the company said…
Category: Health Data
LA: Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center laptop missing; held data on over 17,000 ICU patients
Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge issued this statement today: Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center has determined that a laptop computer containing limited health information for former Intensive Care Unit patients was discovered to be missing from a local physician office sometime between March 16 and 20,…
PA: Patient information breach confirmed
Dan Kelly and Ron Devlin report: Reading Hospital’s medical records system was breached recently by an employee who copied sensitive patient information and used it for training purposes, hospital officials confirmed Thursday. Medical test results, diagnoses, prescribed medications and other data legally classified as Protected Health Information on 12 patients was made public without the…
Mich. HIV contractor violated privacy policy, investigation finds
A government contractor in Michigan violated the state’s data security policies in its handling of thousands of pages of information relating to people living with HIV, a state investigation has found. The investigation concluded, however, that no state or federal laws were broken and that no individually identifiable private health information was disclosed to the…
Howard University Hospital employee charged with selling patient info
Jim McElhatton reports that Howard University Hospital has disclosed another data breach that appears to be unrelated to the theft of a contractor’s laptop reported in March. Charging documents filed in federal court in Washington this week say Laurie Napper, a technician in the surgery department, sold patients’ names, addresses, dates of birth and Medicare…
IL: Hospital worker charged with stealing patients' identities
From WLS in Illinois: A Northwestern Memorial Hospital employee has been charged with stealing the identity of patients to pay off her personal bills. Shatina Golden, 35, of south suburban Matteson was charged Monday with one count each of aggravated identity theft and identity theft, according to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office. Golden had…