Because some of us were confused as to whether the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County was actually covered by HIPAA, the good folks over at HealthITSecurity.com followed up. Read Patrick Ouellette’s coverage here.
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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,…
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….
UK: Confidential patient details were in filing cabinet lost by Sutton hospital
Sophia Sleigh reports: A hospital lost a filing cabinet containing vulnerable patients’ confidential details in a major security breach, it has emerged. Documents, containing data on 63 patients – who could be from anywhere in south-west London – disappeared from Sutton Hospital last year prompting an investigation by Government inspectors. Privacy campaigners have called the…
TN: Laptop stolen from Hope Family Health employee's home contained personal data of approximately 8,000 patients
Josh Cross reports: Files containing personal information for up to 8,000 individuals who visited a local health care center since 2005 were on a laptop that was stolen from a Hendersonville home in August. The computer, which was issued to a member of Hope Family Health’s finance department, was taken during a burglary Aug. 4…
Rothman Institute offers free credit monitoring to patients after internal data breach
PressOfAtlanticCity.com reports: The Rothman Institute, which has locations throughout Atlantic and Cape May counties, released a letter regarding an internal breach of patient data that could have affected the privacy of some patients. The Philadelphia-based orthopedic institute said in a statement Monday they discovered a former employee had removed paper copies of daily patient schedules…