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Northwest Community notifies patients of R-C Healthcare breach
It may seem like old news to you by now, but some patients affected by a third-party breach at R-C Healthcare are first finding out about it now. As reported previously on this site, R-C Healthcare had been notified by Bon Secours on June 14 that files with 655,000 of its patients’ records were exposed. The exposure…
CA: Apria Healthcare notifies patients of breach
Apria Healthcare today announced a data security incident involving unauthorized access to an employee’s email account. Apria Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading providers of home respiratory services and certain medical equipment. Affected individuals may have received certain medical equipment from Apria Healthcare. On August 5, 2016, Apria Healthcare discovered that the email account of…
Report: Third-Party Breaches in the Healthcare Sector Are Nothing to Sneeze At
DataBreaches.net has reported on a number of breaches in the healthcare sector this year that involved third parties, so I thought that I’d try to compile them to see how 2016 was shaping up. The resulting chronology, available in a new report co-authored with Protenus, Inc., includes more than 60 incidents involving business associates or vendors. Highlights of the…
Pasadena Doctor Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison for Falsely Certifying Patients Were Terminally Ill as Part of Healthcare Fraud Scheme
One of the fears with medical identity theft is that a patient’s records could be corrupted in ways that could affect their care. In the case described below, the patients’ identity and insurance info wasn’t stolen, but it was misused to support a fraud scheme, and as part of the scheme, patients records were altered…
Rotech Healthcare notifies patients whose details were found in possession of unauthorized individual
Rotech Healthcare Inc., a provider of home respiratory and medical equipment equipment and supplies, notified HHS of a breach involving 957 patients. Here is their notification: Rotech Healthcare Inc. (“Rotech”) would like to notify you of a recent incident that may affect the security of your personal and protected health information. We are providing you…