Category: Health Data

A care provider has lost a memory stick that held sensitive personal information about 53 people from Northern Ireland. Praxis Care Limited lost the unencrypted material last August but the details have just emerged. The company has been found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act and has been ordered by the Information…

Kokomo police are investigating the reported theft of hundreds of medical records from a local chiropractic clinic. But police are still without suspects in the January 2 break-in at Family Chiropractic Center. The center’s owner, chiropractor Jason Harp, said between 400 and 450 patient files were stolen. Police think the motive may have been identity…

Brian Mylar reports: Boxes full of personal medical records were recovered in a Castroville trash can, exposing thousands of patients to the threat of identity theft and more. Gilbert Padilla was simply throwing out trash when he found the boxes. He said he found a goldmine of information for an identity thief. There were boxes…

Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson filed a lawsuit yesterday against Accretive Health, Inc., a debt collection agency that is part of a New York private equity fund conglomerate, for failing to protect the confidentiality of patient health care records and not disclosing to patients its extensive involvement in their health care through its role in…

A somewhat self-serving, but still relevant, press release from RSRS: Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner Dr. Ann Cavoukian, has once again asserted her commitment to the protection and security of confidential medical information after hundreds of personal medical records were discovered scattered amongst debris in an abandoned rural property in the town of Newcastle, Ontario….

A Gambrills, Maryland podiatrist was sentenced today to 54 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for health care fraud and aggravated identity theft. A statement issued by the U.S. Attorney for Maryland noted that Larry Bernhard, age 56, was also ordered to pay restitution of $1,122,992.08 for fraudulently billing Medicare. According…