An employee at Sentara Port Warwick emergency department is among those indicted on federal charges including ID theft and fraud. According to the indictment, Miracle Howard, an ER patient intake representative, stole driver’s license and credit card information from patients and others and gave it to Latresa Totten and Warnette Morris. […] The indictment…
Category: Health Data
MD: Hospital patient data revealed
Jim Hall reports: A security breach in an online computer system at Mary Washington Hospital exposed the private medical information of some of its maternity patients. A man who tried to use the Fredericksburg hospital’s online registration system for his expectant wife said the files for 803 patients were publicly available on the site. On…
ONC tackles medical identity theft
Diana Manos reports: Leaders and stakeholders gathered this week to discuss medical identity theft and how the federal government could lead a campaign to prevent it. In a town hall meeting sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), experts explained how statistics are scarce…
UK: Hospital's high risk over patients' records
John Morgan reports: There is a “high risk” of patient data being lost at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. A risk assessment by the hospital itself states that the high volume of data handled at the trust by a high number of staff means the risk cannot be eliminated altogether. The News has found that information lost by…
Los Angeles Area Health Care Company Owner Pleads Guilty to Medical Identity Theft and Medicare Fraud
A La Crescenta man pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges of defrauding Medicare by using patients’ Medicare identification numbers without their knowledge, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Matthew Friedrich and U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Thomas P. O’Brien announced. Between August 2003 and April 2008, Melkon Gabriyelyan,…
UK: Health staff warned over data
HEALTH workers have been threatened with police action if they break data protection laws. In a note to NHS Lothian staff, bosses said there was a “zero tolerance” approach to the issue. The reminder comes after a memory stick containing 137 patient records was lost earlier this year. Read more in Edinburgh Evening News