The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT), part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has awarded approximately $450,000 to Booz Allen Hamilton, a strategy and consulting technology firm, to assess and evaluate the scope of the medical identity theft problem in the United States. The purpose of the…
Category: Health Data
Security sweep at NHS sites
Marjory Inglis of the Evening Telegraph reports: A report on an internal investigation into the events at Strathmartine was forwarded to the Scottish Government on Friday. The Government and the UK data watchdog launched investigations after the furore over Strathmartine. Local health chiefs came under fire last month after private records were found strewn around…
Quest Diagnostics laptop stolen
Quest Diagnostics has notified the Maryland Attorney General’s office that an employee’s password-protected laptop containing names, addresses, and Social Security numbers was stolen on May 1. The notification letter did not indicate the total number of individuals with data on the laptop, whether the data belonged to patients or employees, or whether the laptop was…
Ex-patient sues storage firm over stolen U. records
Stephen Hunt of the Salt Lake Tribune reports: Just days after the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics announced the theft of 2.2 million patients’ billing records containing a variety of personal information, the first lawsuit over the debacle has been filed. In a proposed class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday in 3rd District Court, former patient…
Another 2007 breach?
In reading a report by Sandra Yi on the U. of Utah breach, it appears that there was another breach last year that had not been reported in the chronologies on this site. Yi reports: The theft could have been intentional, but the sheriff’s office says it also could have been that whoever broke into…
U of U Hospital billing records stolen; data from 2.2m patients at risk (update 1)
Billing records have been stolen from a business that does work for the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics. The records, reportedly containing data from 2.2 million patients, were stolen from an outside vendor of University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics, according to a news release from the university. Source – Salt Lake Tribune Update…