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EMR Data Theft Booming

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Dissent

Nicole Lewis reports:

Acceleration in the use of electronic medical records may lead to an increase in personal health information theft, according to a new study that shows there were more than 275,000 cases of medical information theft in the U.S. last year.Unlike stealing a driver’s license or a credit card, data gleaned from personal health records provides a wealth of information that helps criminals commit multiple crimes, according to Javelin Strategy & Research, a Pleasanton, California-based market research firm.

Information such as social security numbers, addresses, medical insurance numbers, past illnesses, and sometimes credit card numbers, can help criminals commit several types of fraud. These may include: making payments from stolen credit card numbers and ordering and reselling medical equipment by using stolen medical insurance numbers.

A key finding from the report is that fraud resulting from exposure of health data has risen from 3% in 2008 to 7% in 2009, a 112% increase.

Read more on InformationWeek.

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4 thoughts on “EMR Data Theft Booming”

  1. Anonymous says:
    March 27, 2010 at 1:26 am

    “Unlike stealing a driver’s license or a credit card, data gleaned from personal health records provides a wealth of information that helps criminals commit multiple crimes”

    I can assure readers here that the theft of a credit card or drivers license also allows criminals to commit multiple crimes.

    1. Anonymous says:
      March 27, 2010 at 8:32 am

      I’m glad you picked up on that, as although I understood the major point that this needs to be taken more seriously, I also questioned that particular statement.

  2. Anonymous says:
    March 29, 2010 at 9:07 am

    I wonder how wide spread is the use of stolen insurance information to purchase medical equipment…?

    1. Anonymous says:
      March 29, 2010 at 10:06 am

      Good question. Maybe you could send an inquiry under FOIA to the DOJ and HHS/CMS asking about that?

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