Another insider breach in a Florida healthcare facility where the covered entity only learned of the breach via notification by law enforcement. Maria Mallory White reports: A former Broward Health Medical Center employee took documents containing the personal information of nearly 1,000 patients in a data breach uncovered by local and federal officials, the Fort Lauderdale health system announced…
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Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Issues Guidelines to Health Care Industry on Medical Identity Theft
Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today released guidelines on preventing and remedying medical identity theft, including best practice recommendations for the health care industry and tips for consumers. The guidelines are part of a report, Medical Identity Theft: Recommendations for the Age of Electronic Medical Records, which frames the escalated migration to electronic medical records…
Ohio dentist pleads guilty to misuse of state's prescription monitoring system (Updated)
This must be our week to report on healthcare providers who jeopardize their professional licenses by engaging in conduct resulting in privacy breaches. Earlier this week, PHIprivacy.net reported on the suspension of psychologist Dr. Sunil Kakar’s license. Today’s story is a follow-up to the case of a Solon, Ohio dentist who was charged with misusing…
Sentara employees plead guilty to stealing patient information for tax refund fraud scheme
Scott Daugherty has an update on an insider breach involving two former Sentara Healthcare nurse’s aides. It turns out that they accessed the information of 3,700 patients between September 2011 and April 2013. Most of the victims were patients at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital between September 2012 and February 2013. Sentara Healthcare’s chief privacy officer,…
Report indicates insider threats leading cause of data breaches in last 12 months
Grant Hatchimonji writes: While threats to data security and privacy are often perceived to come from the outside, all signs point to internal threats being just as dangerous, intentional or not. Forrester recently released its Understand the State of Data Security and Privacy report, which offered insight on the reasons behind data breaches, with internal…
Scottsdale Dermatology Clinic patients became victims of ID theft after billing firm employee stole their information
The Sonoran News reports that two people have been arrested in Maricopa County on charges related to identity theft. One of them, Brittany Davidson, is suspected of stealing the credit card information of multiple patients in the course of her employment at a medical billing firm that is a business associate of Scottsdale Dermatology Clinic….