Garrett Haake reports: At least several dozen, but possibly hundreds, of confidential medical records were scattered to the winds outside Research Hospital on Monday afternoon, potentially exposing the personal and medical information of scores of former patients of Midwest Women’s Healthcare. […] The man collected some 70 patient records and provided them to 41 Action…
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Clerical error leads to hundreds of veterans getting wrong cancer test results
An error involving the Atlanta VA Medical Center resulted in 249 veterans getting the wrong cancer test results. One veteran told Channel 2 news in Atlanta he first received test results that were positive for cancer. Then he got test results that were negative (and was relieved). But then, after cancelling a follow-up visit he had scheduled after getting…
U.S. Mines Personal Health Data to Find the Vulnerable in Emergencies
As soon as I saw the headline in the New York Times, I figured someone was going to raise privacy concerns. I wasn’t wrong. Sheri Fink reports: The phone calls were part Big Brother, part benevolent parent. When a rare ice storm threatened New Orleans in January, some residents heard from a city official who had gained…
Former Palm Beach County Health Department employee sentenced in data theft for tax refund fraud scheme
AP has an update on an insider breach at the Palm Beach County Department Health, reported previously on this blog: A federal judge imposed the sentence last week on 31-year-old Salita St. Simon of Belle Glade. St. Simon was also ordered to pay more than $19,000 in restitution and serve two years’ probation after her…
FL: Brandon Man Sentenced To More Than 7 Years For Stolen Identity Refund Fraud
A case involving veterans’ records at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center in Tampa. I’m not 100% sure, but based on the dates, this may be related to the insider breach I had reported here. On May 16, U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington sentenced Anthony R. Reeves to seven years and three months in…
Healthcare Dives Into Big Data
Alison Diana reports: With the mandated adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), many healthcare professionals for the first time got centralized access to patient records. Now they’re figuring out how to use all this information. Although the healthcare industry has been slow to delve into big data, that might be about to change. At stake:…