A disgruntled worker is paying the price for deleting medical records, 10News reported. Jon Paul Oson, of Chula Vista, was sentenced to more than 5 years in prison for hacking into the database of a local health clinic. It was the very person trusted to protect the Council of Community Health Clinics who went on…
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ONCHIT hires tech firm to tackle medical identity theft problem
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has awarded approximately $450,000 to Booz Allen Hamilton, a strategy and consulting technology firm, to assess and evaluate the scope of the medical identity theft problem in the United States. The purpose of the…
Blue Cross plans Web access to records
Jeffrey Krasner of The Boston Globe reports: Come this fall, members of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts will be able to go online to look up their healthcare claims and some medical records, which the insurer says will help patients manage their medical care and have more productive discussions with doctors. The feature…
Quest Diagnostics laptop stolen
Quest Diagnostics has notified the Maryland Attorney General’s office that an employee’s password-protected laptop containing names, addresses, and Social Security numbers was stolen on May 1. The notification letter did not indicate the total number of individuals with data on the laptop, whether the data belonged to patients or employees, or whether the laptop was…
EPIC Urges Congress to Safeguard Medical Privacy
From EPIC.org: In response to a request from Congressman Edward Markey, EPIC recommended strong medical privacy safeguards in a bill that would establish a national framework for electronic health records. EPIC commended Congress for raising the vital issues implicated by digital health records, and recommended effective and meaningful privacy safeguards for consumers’ personal medical information….
Another 2007 breach?
In reading a report by Sandra Yi on the U. of Utah breach, it appears that there was another breach last year that had not been reported in the chronologies on this site. Yi reports: The theft could have been intentional, but the sheriff’s office says it also could have been that whoever broke into…