Parallon Business Solutions in Tennessee provides billing services for physician practices. On February 5, 2014, they were informed by Metropolitan Police in Nashville and the Secret Service that a former employee was under investigation for stealing patient information. The data theft occurred between August 27, 2012 and April 23, 2013 and included patients’ names, addresses,…
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OH: Breach of Morrow Co. EMS/911 patient data raises questions
John Jarvis reports on disputed versions of a network issue that could have compromised patient information? No patients were ever notified, and those involved tell different stories about whether they were advised to notify patients or not: Patient information in the Morrow County emergency medical service and 911 systems was at risk of being compromised…
Historian’s Efforts To Research Civil War PTSD Thwarted By Privacy Law
Here we go again. Alden Bourne reports that Matt Warshauer, a history professor at Central Connecticut State University, has encountered privacy obstacles to researching Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or associated conditions like Soldier’s Heart in past wars. […] Warshauer discovered Perkins in a patient casebook he was able to look at back in 2011. Soon after, the…
GA: Former Certified Nursing Assistant and Co-Conspirators Sentenced to Prison for Identity Theft Tax Scheme
There’s an update to a breach previously noted on this blog: Kimberly Banks, Donalene Mosley and Arneshia Austin were sentenced today in Albany, Ga., to serve 192 months, 37 months and 21 months in prison, respectively, for crimes relating to filing fraudulent income tax returns using stolen identities. After a weeklong jury trial, Banks was…
Berea College incurs breach costs because they forgot to ask a business associate to sign a BA agreement
Berea College in Kentucky is notifying current and former patients of the Berea College Health Service of a self-discovered HIPAA violation that has not been associated with any harm to patients. In a notice posted on their website today, they explain: Berea College Health Service (BCHS), a department of Berea College and medical care provider…
Your medical files may be at risk
Patricia Kime reports: After veteran Aaron Alexis shot and killed a dozen people at the Washington Navy Yard last September, the Air Force noted a spike in the number of personnel dipping into his electronic medical file. The snooping — illegal under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA — was so pervasive…