Jay Weaver reports: Last year, they were charged with running a racket to pilfer patient records from Jackson Memorial Hospital to sell to lawyers for personal-injury claims. Now Ruben E. Rodriguez and wife Maria Victoria Suarez have been indicted again for paying an ambulance-company employee to steal information on patients transported to Miami-Dade hospitals and…
Category: Health Data
NHS in confidential data blunder in Cambridgeshire
Letters sent out to patients about the national NHS records database contained confidential data about other people, the BBC has learned. A review has taken place after letters containing personal information were sent to the wrong patients in Cambridgeshire, BBC Look East found. The letters contain details about which surgery the person attends and their…
4 accused of ID theft plot with 125 victims
Erica Blake reports: As part of their employment with various Toledo-area businesses, Robert L. Taylor, Adam R. Shank, and Dominique L. Lawson had access to clients’ names, birthdates, and Social Security numbers, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. But instead of keeping the information confidential, the three allegedly sold the identities – more than 125 of…
UT Southwestern employee accused of selling patient information
Shon Gables reports: Authorities arrested an employee at UT [University of Texas] Southwestern Medical Center after she allegedly stole patent information and possibly their identities. Hundreds of patients’ personal information – including birth dates, addresses, phone numbers and financial data – was stolen before Tracy Renay Thomas’ arrest and termination, police said. Thomas is accused…
RSA: Identity Theft Challenges for Healthcare
Tony Kontzer reports: The phenomenon of medical identity theft is on the rise, and healthcare companies face more challenges in addressing the issue than their counterparts in the financial services industry, a panel of experts agreed Thursday at the RSA 2010 conference in San Francisco. The Federal Trade Commission estimates the number of American patients…
Patient data stolen from WFUBMC employee’s car
A bag containing a document with the names and Social Security numbers of 554 patients of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center was stolen from an employee’s locked car, medical center officials said today. The theft happened Feb. 15 in the parking deck of an off-campus outpatient clinic, officials said. The list did not include…