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…
Category: Health Data
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…
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…
UK: Records abandoned despite warnings
Scott Macnab reports: Health chiefs failed to remove confidential patient records from a disused hospital despite repeated warnings, an official report yesterday found. NHS Tayside took action only after media reports emerged about the data which had been left lying at Strathmartine Hospital on the outskirts of Dundee. Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon yesterday said the…
UK: Updated: Echo exposes hospital security scandal
CONFIDENTIAL medical letters, documents and payroll information have been stored in an unguarded corridor open to the public at Basildon Hospital. Our reporters were able to stroll into the corridor, off an access road at the back of the hospital, and look through envelopes, including some marked private and confidential. Read more in Echo
UK: GPs are the weakest link in data losses claims NHS chief
Steve Nowottny reports: The Government is planning to make compliance with data security standards a contractual requirement after claiming GPs are the weak link in keeping patient records safe. The plans – which are likely to be resisted by GPC negotiators – come just a week after a Pulse investigation found that four NHS trusts…