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Employee fraud hits Baptist Health in Arkansas

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2008-07-11 00:00:20 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Health Baptist Health is the largest not-for-profit healthcare organization in Arkansas Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Patients Number Affected 1,800 Types of Data name, address, date of birth, Social Security number, and reason for coming to Baptist Health Breach Description LITTLE ROCK (AP) - A North Little Rock woman has...
 
Tags: confidential personal information, personal information, baptist health system, health system, fraud, victims personal information, employee fraud, baptist health, employee
 
 
 
 
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5,000 Health Net employees affected by stolen laptop

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2008-01-05 19:04:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Health Net Contractor/Consultant/Branch Unnamed Victims Connecticut Health Net employees and health-care providers Number Affected About 5,000 employees and "an undisclosed number of health-care providers outside the Northeast Types of Data Names and Social Security numbers Breach Description A laptop computer containing personal...
 
Tags: employees, health net employees, health net, company vendor, vendor, health net vendor, information, personal information, laptop
 
 
 
 
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Why even having health insurance is not enough anymore

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2008-05-04 15:13:07 by HASH0x8b625c8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Health Costs ". The article details that with the hard economic times even people who have health insurance are being bitten by the ever rising costs of health care. Rising premiums, covering less procedures and care and charging more for prescriptions and medical care combine to put the bite on everyone. From my own experience here are 4...
 
Tags: insurance, health insurance, premiums, employees insurance premiums, insurance company pays, regular insurance, insurance company, care, health care system
 
 
 
 
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Elliot Health System reports a breach involving health information

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2008-04-16 11:00:28 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Health System (EHS Contractor/Consultant/Branch Advanced Medical Partners, Inc Victims Patients Number Affected Unknown Types of Data electronic protected health information" "name, procedural dates of service at EHS, name of your insurance company and your date of birth Breach Description A business associate of The Elliot Health System...
 
Tags: information, breach, elliot health system, elliot, health information, contractor information security, ehs andor ampi, ehs, information security program
 
 
 
 
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Health care practices and UCSF patient records exposed

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2008-05-07 16:10:17 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...health insurers and other entities to discriminate thieves can use purloined information to obtain medical treatment and prescription drugs and to file false medical claims Evan] Purloined is a funny word This is a large and very significant data breach," said Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum To commit medical...
 
Tags: ucsf, ucsf patient, ucsf patients, patients, patient, sensitive information, information, patient information, ucsf medical center
 
 
 
 
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Human error is blamed in WellCare Health Plans breach

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2008-04-09 12:39:08 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Health Plans, Inc. provides managed care services exclusively for government-sponsored healthcare programs, focusing on Medicaid and Medicare. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, WellCare offers a variety of health plans for families, children, the aged, blind and disabled and prescription drug plans, currently serving more than 2.3 million...
 
Tags: breach, wellcare, information, personal information, wellcare health plans, health plans, information technology issue, georgia families, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Sandown Health Centre backup tape is missing

2008-05-27 13:14:16 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
 
...Health Centre City Link (the courier Victims Patients Number Affected 38,650 Types of Data Medical records Breach Description The Isle of Wight NHS Primary Care Trust and the Sandown Health Centre are taking action to reassure patients after a computer tape containing their personal details went missing Reference URL Isle of Wight NHS...
 
Tags: tape, health centre, sandown health centre, data verification, data verification company, back-up tape, computer tape, information, personal information
 
 
 
 
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Why making health records public is not a great idea

2008-05-20 07:21:10 by HASH0x8911db8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Health service. Fred filled out his personal medical information and was disappointed that he was not able to publish this data and make it public. Fred would like to have a sidebar widget for his blog with his health profile. Many people wrote to Fred telling him why Google does not do this. Many of them centered on the fact that insurance...
 
Tags: health, health records public, public, fred, fred wilson, records, health profile, fred feels, google health service
 
 
 
 
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Laptop stolen from NHLBI contained personal health information

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2008-03-24 22:13:49 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute ("NHLBI Victims participants in a cardiac MRI study conducted between 2001 and 2007 Number Affected 2,500 Types of Data name, birth date, hospital medical record number, and data contained in MRI reports such as measurements and diagnoses ...
 
Tags: information, nhlbi, financial information, medical information, laptop computers, nhlbi laptop computers, confidential information, government laptop computer, government
 
 
 
 
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Intrusion into UMass Amherst University Health Services network

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2008-04-30 15:54:48 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Health Services Victims Patients Number Affected Unknown Types of Data personal information" and "medical records Breach Description Hackers b