Brian Lee reports: A former employee of the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center in Worcester and her daughter and her daughter’s boyfriend allegedly stole the identities of approximately 22 people to buy cellphones and utility services via the Internet, investigators said. Nine of the alleged victims were patients. Two victims live in Mississippi, police…
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Moving Toward a New Health Care Privacy Paradigm
Kirk Nahra does a terrific job articulating the concerns about non-HIPAA-covered health data and the debate that has already started as to whether such data should be regulated, and if so, how. Read his article on Wiley Rein. h/t, Daniel Solove
Health Care Fraud: First, Do No Harm
Cathy Fleming writes: If you could earn a 20:1 return, would you invest? The federal government apparently would and does. According to an October 2013 report prepared for the Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund,1 “[i]f all costs and benefits are accounted for, the benefit to cost ratio of False Claims Act law enforcement now exceeds 20:1.”…
Over 60,000 Tennessee employees notified of Onsite Health Diagnostics hack
The entities affected by the hack of Onsite Health Diagnostics continue to dribble out. In today’s installment, we learn that the State of Tennessee‘s State Insurance Plan, Local Government Insurance Plan, and Local Education Insurance Plan members were affected by the hack of the state’s wellness vendor’s subcontractor. The incident was added to HHS’s breach tool…
Second Emdeon client reports breach to HHS
Back in September, I noted an addition to HHS’s breach tool this way: St John’s Episcopal Hospital in New York reported that its business associate, Emdeon, was involved in a breach that affected 566 patients. The date of the breach is listed as July 24, 2012. I hope that’s a typo, but in the absence of information…….
Ca: Patient information found scattered on Toronto street
Marianne Dimain reports: Ontario’s acting privacy commissioner is concerned after documents containing personal patient information were recently found scattered across a Toronto neighbourhood. Dozens of papers with patient names, addresses, phone numbers and social insurance numbers were found near Leslie Street and Sheppard Avenue on Saturday, not far from North York General Hospital. Hospital staff…