Category: Health Data

Private records containing medical histories of 137 patients have been lost by a health service worker, the NHS has said. Copies of letters sent to Edinburgh GPs by NHS Lothian over two years were stored on a computer memory stick in breach of data protection rules. Full story – Deeside Piper

This is a different Baptist hospital than the story reported just previous to this one. Toby Manthey reports in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: Baptist Health has sent letters warning about 1, 800 patients that the hospital system’s records may have been breached, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has learned. The notification came after the arrest of a Baptist…

Jeffrey Krasner reports in the Boston Globe: A check forgery ring targeted patients at New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, using private checking account information and stolen identities to take as much as $3,000 from each victim, according to hospital and law enforcement officials. So far, nine victims have been identified by the hospital, but…

ABC is reporting: Tapes containing the billing records of about 1.5 million people dating back 16 years that were stolen last month have been found. There have been no arrests made in connection with the theft. Previous coverage here, here, and here. Update: AP reports that 3 people are in custody and that law enforcement…

As an update to the case reported here yesterday, Tiara M. Ellis of the Dallas Morning News reports: A Duncanville woman who confessed to stealing the identities of 78 people was sentenced to 38 years in prison Monday in what authorities are calling one of the biggest identity-theft cases against a single person in the…

Bryn Nelson of MSNBC writes: A perceptive palm reader is helping one of the largest healthcare systems in the U.S. divine the true identities of its patients, ushering in a new era of biometric identity verification. The device, resembling a small black cube and manufactured by Tokyo-based Fujitsu Corp., uses a vascular pattern recognition system…