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- Patient Portals At Leitchfield Hospital Are Breached In Cyber Attack; Officials Say It Did Not Involve Any Data In State System
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center's patient portals were the target of a sophisticated cyber attack earlier this year, which may have breached protected patient health information, reports The Record,...
- Elizabethtown Doctors Who Paid Millions To Settle Claims Of Bill-padding Are Sued By Chemotherapy Patients
"Eight former patients or their estates have sued the Elizabethtown cancer doctors who paid the government $3.7 million last June to settle claims they extended chemotherapy treatments to pad their bills," Andrew Wolfson reports for The Courier-Journal....
- Medical Identity Theft Increasing; Survey Says 43% Of Leaks Involve Medical Records
Modern technology has brought about an increase in identity theft and lately in a particularly dangerous form: medical identity theft. According to a survey conducted by the Identity Theft Resource Center, 43 percent of all record breaches in personal...
- Data Leaks Are A Risk With Electronic Health Records; State Says It Has Safeguards To Protect Privacy
As hospitals and other health-care providers in Kentucky and across the country are adopting electronic health records to save money and improve care, they do so at some risk. The medical files containing insurance forms, Social Security numbers...
- Medical Records A Key Factor In Patient Safety
Whether it's a nursing home resident needing a procedure, or tracking medications for a hospital inpatient, medical records are a crucial component to successful treatment. Right now, LifeBridge Health has hybrid medical records systems, which include...
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Medical records of 1,018 patients stolen at Lexington Clinic, but no apparent identity theft
One of the fears of electronic health records is that personal information can be stolen en masse, a possibility that became a reality when a laptop computer was stolen at the Lexington Clinic.
The machine was taken Dec. 7 from the clinic's neurology department at the St. Joseph Office Park. Letters were sent to the 1,018 affected patients last week about the theft, Mary Meehan of the Lexington Herald-Leader reports.
The laptop contained the names, contact information and diagnoses from patients from as long as five years go. Not among the data were Social Security numbers, credit card or bank account numbers. So far, there is no sign of identify theft.
The clinic said it took six weeks to informing patients because it took time to "pinpoint exactly what information was on the laptop, which was used in conjunction with the clinic's electromyography machine," Meehan reports.
Another theft happened at UK HealthCare in June, when the medical records of 3,000 patients were taken from the Department of Pediatrics' newborn screening program. Patients were not informed of that breach until two months later. (Read more)
- Patient Portals At Leitchfield Hospital Are Breached In Cyber Attack; Officials Say It Did Not Involve Any Data In State System
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center's patient portals were the target of a sophisticated cyber attack earlier this year, which may have breached protected patient health information, reports The Record,...
- Elizabethtown Doctors Who Paid Millions To Settle Claims Of Bill-padding Are Sued By Chemotherapy Patients
"Eight former patients or their estates have sued the Elizabethtown cancer doctors who paid the government $3.7 million last June to settle claims they extended chemotherapy treatments to pad their bills," Andrew Wolfson reports for The Courier-Journal....
- Medical Identity Theft Increasing; Survey Says 43% Of Leaks Involve Medical Records
Modern technology has brought about an increase in identity theft and lately in a particularly dangerous form: medical identity theft. According to a survey conducted by the Identity Theft Resource Center, 43 percent of all record breaches in personal...
- Data Leaks Are A Risk With Electronic Health Records; State Says It Has Safeguards To Protect Privacy
As hospitals and other health-care providers in Kentucky and across the country are adopting electronic health records to save money and improve care, they do so at some risk. The medical files containing insurance forms, Social Security numbers...
- Medical Records A Key Factor In Patient Safety
Whether it's a nursing home resident needing a procedure, or tracking medications for a hospital inpatient, medical records are a crucial component to successful treatment. Right now, LifeBridge Health has hybrid medical records systems, which include...