Joseph Pleasant reports: Metro Nashville’s Health Department discovered that around 1,700 people’s personal information may have been lost in July. The information impacts the Children Special Services program. Metro Nashville’s Health Department is mailing out letters to notify participants in the Children Special Services program that their personal information could be at risk. The health…
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Privacy commissioner rules Medicentres failed to protect info on stolen laptop
Canadian Press reports: Alberta’s privacy commissioner has determined that a chain of medical clinics failed to protect patients’ health information that was on a stolen laptop. The commissioner’s report also says the company, although it technically followed response rules, took too long to announce the privacy breach. Which is exactly what I said at the…
Feds Investigate Idaho Medicaid Mental-Health Contractor For Privacy Violations
Emilie Ritter Saunders & Audrey Dutton report: A federal agency is investigating whether the company Idaho hired to manage part of its Medicaid program has violated patient-privacy laws. Optum Idaho, a unit of United Behavioral Health, took over insurance management for Idaho Medicaid’s mental-health and substance-abuse patients last fall. Local health-care providers who treat those…
Former Crozer-Chester Medical Center employee sentenced for identity theft
An update to a breach previously noted on this blog. Reynaldo Estrada was sentenced yesterday to 51 months in prison for stealing the identity information of numerous patients’ as part of a tax fraud scheme. The patient information theft occurred while Estrada was working at Crozer-Chester Medical Center’s Environmental Services Department in Upland and at Community Hospital in…
Federal medical-privacy law frustrates ID theft victims
Lorelei Laird has an interesting piece on medical identity theft, the dangers it poses to patients, and the frustrations they experience trying to correct their records because of HIPAA. Read it on ABA Journal.
Ca: Rouge Valley privacy breach bigger than originally thought (updated)
A breach at Rouge Valley Centenary that involved the contact information of 8,300 new mothers possibly being sold by two employees to multiple Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) companies may also have affected new mothers at Rouge Valley Health System’s (RVHS) Ajax and Pickering site as well. It is not clear, however, whether the same two employees were responsible. CP24 has the update….