Personal Data: What’s Being Done to Protect Us from Another Equifax Disaster?
As the world becomes more advanced and consumers become more invested in technology, there has been a greater increase in the number of data breaches…
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Equifax Breached: 143 Million Could Be Affected
It seems in today’s age of digital information data breaches are becoming an everyday occurrence. Whether the breaches are involved in political scandals or simply…
Hospital Fails to Notify Family of Patient’s Death for over a Week
Troubles are nothing new for Washington D.C.’s only public hospital, United Medical Center. Just last month, I wrote a post about how their obstetrics department…
Worries about School Safety Wane for First Time since Sandy Hook Incident
August is a time when most young children around the nation go back to school, and, for the first time since 2012, parents will be…
Health Department Suspends Obstetric License for United Medical Center in D.C.
On Tuesday, August 7th, the D.C. Department of Health ordered United Medical Center (UMC) to stop delivering babies and offering prenatal care for the next…
Hospital Fails Medicare Grade while Still Putting Money in Owner’s Pocket; Patients at Risk
Beleaguered by mounting debt and down-trending stock values, hospital healthcare leader Community Health Systems (CHS) has made some questionable moves that have healthcare professionals and…
No Child Should Be Trapped Underwater in a Swimming Pool From Hair Entanglement
Between 1990 and 2007, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were 98 cases of body entrapments in pools or spa drains, including 15…
Identity Thieves Continue to Target Hospitals in 2017
Recently, a federal judge granted class action status to a civil suit filed against Triad of Alabama, the previous owner of Flowers Hospital in Dothan,…
Financial Aid Applicants Latest to Fall Victim to Identity Theft.
Over the past year, the Nation has seen the effects of Internet espionage and data breach attacks play out in the political arena; however, that…
Do U.S. Hospitals Make the Grade with Maternity Care?
In an era when individuals are bearing more of, if literally not all, the financial burden for their health care coverage, we are seeing a…