Jonathan D. Silver reports: Monroeville’s assistant police chief has filed a complaint alleging that his own municipality, UPMC and the department’s former chief breached a federal privacy law governing release of medical information. […] The complaint, filed in August by Assistant Chief Steven Pascarella, claims that information about ambulance dispatches was being sent not only…
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PA: HHS opens investigation into closed Monsour Medical Center
Richard Gazarik reports: Federal officials are investigating how patient records loaded with intimate medical details and doctors’ personnel files were abandoned amid the ruins of Monsour Medical Center when its administrators walked away from the failing facility six years ago. The records, in easy reach of the vagrants, arsonists and other trespassers who frequent the…
HHS tool reveals three more breaches
Today’s update of HHS’s breach tool reveals three more breaches not previously reported on this blog: Sierra Plastic Surgery in Nevada was hacked or had a network compromise between August 19, 2011 and September 20, 2011, but are apparently just reporting it to HHS now – unless HHS mistyped the year of the incident twice….
TN: Blount Memorial Hospital notifies 27,000 of stolen laptop (updated)
The Maryville Daily Times reports: Blount Memorial Hospital has informed patients of the theft of a hospital laptop containing registration records of Blount Heart Consultants. The laptop was reported stolen from an employee’s home on Aug. 25 and has not yet been recovered. Read more on The Maryville Daily Times. There does not seem to…
Former University of Maryland Medical Center employee sentenced for role in ID theft scheme
Associated Press reports that Kenneth Elliott McDowell , a Baltimore resident formerly employed at University of Maryland Medical Center and Bon Secours Hospital has been sentenced to time served and 6 months home detention for his role in an ID theft/fraud scheme. McDowell reportedly took patient records home “to hide that he was not completing his work…
Despite thefts, no new Medicare IDs
Kelly Kennedy reports: More than a quarter-million Medicare beneficiaries are victims of identity theft and hampered in getting health care benefits because the government won’t issue new IDs, according to an investigation report released today. Medicare officials say it’s too expensive and too many agencies are involved to reissue those numbers to patients victimized by…