UPDATE: There was no patient data on the computer. Original post: Yesterday, Don E. Woods reported: Police are investigating the theft of a computer, according to reports, that took place from the radiology department in the regional medical center. The computer may have contained personal records and information, police said, which are password protected. The…
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OK: Court orders Narconon Arrowhead client names and records for Jan. hearing
Jeanne LeFlore reports: A list of clients and their records in connection with a Narconon Arrowhead lawsuit must be handed over to the court in January, court records state. Associate District Court Judge Bland made the ruling on Dec. 2 during a hearing in a lawsuit filed on behalf of Heather Landmeier a Narconon graduate…
Not All Recommended Fraud Safeguards Have Been Implemented in Hospital HER Technology – HHS OIG Report
From the Executive Summary of a newly released report: WHAT WE FOUND Nearly all hospitals with EHR technology had RTI-recommended audit functions in place, but they may not be using them to their full extent. In addition, all hospitals employed a variety of RTI-recommended user authorization and access controls. Nearly all hospitals were using RTI-recommended…
Wichita man believes identity thief was medical billing employee
We might one to cross-file this one under “dumb criminals,” because the fraudster was caught, in part, because she uploaded a picture of her ticket to a Oklahoma City Thunder game – and the visible serial number on the ticket was linked to a patient’s credit card she had misusing. Phil White reports Paul Vick is a…
MD: Walgreens employee prosecuted for misusing customers' credit card numbers
It seems that Walgreens had an insider breach at their Harford Rd., Baltimore store. On November 27, they reported to the the Maryland Attorney General’s office that a pharmacy employee had been accessing misusing customers’ credit card numbers. Eight Maryland residents were affected. Walgreens learned of the breach on November 4, terminated the employee, and…
Details emerge on Hospital for Special Surgery breach
On November 15, I reported on some updates to HHS’s breach tool. One of the entries I wrote was: The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York reported that 537 patients had PHI stolen on March 19, although it’s not clear from HHS’s log whether the data were stolen from a computer or if the computer itself…