How were the Medicare beneficiaries whose information was used in this fraud scheme affected by records of diagnoses they didn’t have and services they neither needed nor received? A Detroit-area physician, who orchestrated the submission of fraudulent claims for physician home visits and directed fraudulent referrals for home health care by his employee physicians as…
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No patient privacy breach here – The Daily Journal Editorial Board
The Daily Journal Editorial Board writes that linking to an online story in social media shouldn’t be considered a privacy breach or HIPAA breach, even if the person doing the linking is bound by patient confidentiality and had been involved in the patient’s care. In this case, though, it seems that the employee was suspended not…
MI: Finger-pointing over Macomb County security breach
Chad Selweski has an update on a breach reported on PHIprivacy.net in October: County officials and contractors continue pointing fingers over a massive security breach in September that opened the door to identify theft by inadvertently exposing the Social Security numbers and dates of birth of more than 6,000 Macomb County employees and their dependents on…
Manitoba says former employee inappropriately accessed personal health info
CTV Winnipeg reports: Manitoba’s health, healthy living and seniors ministry [Manitoba Healthy Living and Seniors] is dealing with a security breach. After receiving a complaint from an outside agency, it found a former employee had inappropriately accessed the personal health information of at least 13 people. Read more on CTV Winnipeg.
FTC asking Apple about health data protection – Sources
Christina Farr and Diane Bartz report: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is seeking assurances from Apple Inc that it will prevent sensitive health data collected by its upcoming smartwatch and other mobile devices from being used without owners’ consent, two sources told Reuters. The two people, both familiar with the FTC’s thinking, said Apple representatives have…
NHS breaches data laws 'six times a day'
David Barrett reports: Confidential patient records are being lost and inappropriately shared by the NHS an average of six times a day, according to new research. A survey of NHS trusts across Britain by a privacy campaign group found there had been 7,255 breaches of data protection rules in three years, including at least 50…