Personal information on 416 patients treated at Baton Rouge, La.-based LSU Health was stolen by a former billing department employee, according to a report by The Advertiser.
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Mindray Medical International has issued a voluntary recall for the A3/A5 Anesthesia Delivery System, according to Pharm Pro.
An audit (pdf) by HHS' Office of Inspector General found that CMS failed to meet federal notification requirements and did not offer adequate help to affected individuals when its Medicare patient database was breached.
FDA has unveiled a new device designed to detect counterfeit products and packaging, according to a CNN Health report.
Scam artists are using the Supreme Court’s recent Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ruling as leverage to collection personal information from consumers, according to a Federal Trade Commission report. “They say they’re from the government and that, using the…
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The Food and Drug Administration is investigating how a contracted document management company accidentally made public 75,000 pages of confidential FDA files related to approval of medical devices, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston recently notified 6,831 patients that their billing information may have been compromised, after an individual found receipts for payments made by five patients at the hospital's surgical day center blowing through a nearby field,…
Healthcare fraud risks in medical transport services have been receiving increasing attention. In Tennessee, the owners of Murfreesboro Ambulance Service face not merely exclusion but up to twenty year prison terms based on charges that they billed Medicare and Medicaid…
The Detroit Medical Center's recent hiring of teleradiology firm Imaging Advantage has raised questions about its impact on the supply of radiologists in the area, according to a Detroit Free Press report.
From 2010 to 2011 the number of data breaches affecting healthcare organizations rose 32 percent, according to research by the Ponemon Institute.