Bob Dunn reports: Sheriff’s detectives are looking for a Fort Bend County medical clinic employee believed to have contributed patient information to a major area identity theft ring. Tracy Spencer-Gilmore, formerly with Kelsey Seybold Clinic, was one of 38 people indicted over the past several weeks in connection with an identity theft ring in…
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Health IT Bill Moves Forward in House with Some Privacy Safeguards
The House Commerce Committee today approved H.R. 6357, the Protecting Records, Optimizing Treatment, and Easing Communication through Healthcare Technology Act of 2008. The PRO(TECH)T Act will promote the adoption of health information technology that is intended to improve the delivery of healthcare services. The bill includes some security and privacy safeguards, such as data breach…
Giving biometrics a hand
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…
Microsoft, AT&T, Covisint Partner On Health Data Exchange
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee of InformationWeek reports: Through a new partnership between Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), AT&T (NYSE: T), and Compuware (NSDQ: CPWR) subsidiary Covisint, consumers who use Microsoft HealthVault tools to input and manage their personal health data via the Web can now share this information nationwide with physicians connected to the AT&T Healthcare Community Online…
More on the Finjan study
Earlier today, I posted a link to a troubling Finjan study that found that crimeware was hitting major health-related organizations.  In his news report on the study, Jaikumar Vijayan of Computerworld writes, in part: One trend Finjan has noted is an increased focus on trying to steal login credentials for Citrix applications. Technologies from Citirx…
Finjan Discovers more than 500 Mb of Stolen Medical, Business and Airline Data on Crimeware Servers in Argentina and Malaysia
Finjan Inc. has issued a press release and report [pdf, free subscription required]. While coming as no surprise, their findings should alarm us all. From the press release: Finjan Inc., a leader in secure web gateway products, today announced its discovery of a server controlled by hackers (Crimeserver) containing more than 500Mb of premium…