Maria Tuma reports: Anti-abortion activists in Texas employ strategies to identify and monitor abortion patients, investigate abortion providers and clinic staff, and search tax records to find locations of abortion providers, according to newly released undercover audio. The audio, from NARAL Pro-Choice Texas and Progress Texas, was recorded during a training session at the Capitol hosted…
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Thousands of veterans notified after their information was left in a ladies' restroom
The South Carolina VA incident wasn’t the only large incident the Veterans Administration reported to Congress for July. In a separate incident, a folder containing multiple patients’ information including full names, SSN’s, and other medical information was found in a ladies restroom in the main lobby of the medical center in Albuquerque, New Mexico on July 30….
Iron Mountain employees suspected of stealing, selling old X-rays files for silver
Courtney Perkes reports: Orthopaedic Specialty Institute Medical Group said that 742 boxes of X-rays of its patients went missing from an Iron Mountain Record Management storage facility in the Inland Empire. Police were called and the storage company concluded that two employees had melted down the X-rays to collect the silver. The medical group said…
Ca: Trial for Nurse Accused in Privacy Breach will Continue in September
VOCM reports: The trial for a nurse accused of breaching patient privacy regulations will continue in September. Colleen Stamp, charged under her former surname Weeks, was once employed by Eastern Health as a triage nurse in the Health Sciences Emergency Department. Stamp was fired in 2012 after being accused of illegally accessing patients’ records. Today…
Hollywood Medical Assistant Pleads Guilty To Identity Theft
CBS reports: A Hollywood medical assistant has pleaded guilty to two identity theft charges. La Toya Yvette Tillman, 33, used her position at Gastroenterology Consultants in Hollywood to access the Memorial Healthcare System database through her computer at work to steal patient identities, including names, dates of birth, and social security numbers, so that she…
Former Tufts Health Plan employee pleads guilty to data theft
An update to the breach previously noted in April. Now we know it was an insider breach. Priyanka Dayal McCluskey reports: A former employee of Tufts Health Plan pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to stealing thousands of patients’ personal information in a scheme to collect fraudulent Social Security benefits and tax refunds, authorities said….