Lauren King reports: A Virginia Beach man pleaded guilty today to aggravated identity theft and participating in a scheme to defraud Navy Federal Credit Union, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the eastern district of Virginia. Jorge Luis Silva-Davalos, 29, is to be sentenced Jan. 22 and faces up…
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Ohio top court mulls Planned Parenthood files
Ohio Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Tuesday that hundreds of medical records from an abortion clinic are important to the case of a 14-year-old girl impregnated by her soccer coach and who had an abortion without her parents’ consent. In a case that seeks access to private medical files on behalf of a single plaintiff,…
UK: Patient data may have been lost
HEALTH chiefs apologised after admitting they don’t know what happened to the nursing records of thousands of patients stored on a computer database. The machine, containing a range of sensitive details including patients’ individual ailments, was supposed to be destroyed during an upgrade at the Gospel Oak Health Centre, in Lismore Circus. But bosses said…
Medical identity theft will be a target of ID study center
Kathryn Foxhall reports: A coalition of public and private groups, including the Department of Defense and the U.S. Secret Service, will open a center at Indiana University study identity theft, including the growing area of health care fraud. The 19 partners in the Center for Applied Identity Management Research (CAIMR) include IBM, LexisNexis, Lockheed Martin,…
New health-care privacy laws heighten need for HIPAA compliance in California
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: Health care organizations that operate in California have two more good reasons to be sure that they comply with the data security and privacy requirements of the federal HIPAA law. Last week, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law two pieces of legislation that significantly increase state fines for security and privacy…
FTC cracks down on medical identity theft
Ann Zeigler reports: The FTC plans to issue a new consumer protection rule that will take on the issue of medical identity theft, a growing concern now that identity thieves have recognized that medical records are rich sources of financial information that can be used to obtain credit with someone else’s history. Alternate forms of…