Health records could be transferred to Google or Microsoft under a Tory government, The Times has learnt. Patients will be given the option of moving their medical notes to private companies after the Conservatives said that they would replace Labour’s “centrally determined and unresponsive national IT systemâ€. The Tories hope that users will be able…
Lawyer’s Files Found in Dumpster
Stacks of business and real-estate case files from a Middletown law firm were left unshredded in a public garbage dumpster June 26, making the Social Security numbers and other personal information on the documents accessible to anyone. The files apparently came from the office of attorney William Bowen, 1 N. Main St. downtown. His firm…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: A federal jury convicted Ronald Luis Bradshaw, a physician assistant, for his role in a $7.7 million Medicare fraud scheme. He was found guilty on all charged counts, including conspiracy to commit health care fraud, multiple counts of health fraud and aggravated identity theft for prescribing medically unnecessary durable medical equipment…
NHS patients database could be open to identity fraud
The Department of Health is investigating fears by a North Staffordshire doctors’ leader that a new IT system of patient records could make it easy for paedophiles to stalk their victims. He also fears that it could open the door to identity fraud and allow people to snoop on each other. To prove his concerns,…
Apple Learning Initiative security breach
The mothership is alerting members of this online program and forums that their account credentials, login and password, have been compromised. Although such events are common enough elsewhere on the interwebs, it’s quite unusual for one to affect Apple. The email sent to members was included in the post: Dear Apple Learning Interchange member, We…
State Employee Accused of Misusing Database
It’s not the first time, but now another Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation employee has been implicated in misusing the state database. James Nash reports in today’s Columbus Dispatch that Tonya Claborn, a fraud investigator for the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, misused confidential state databases to identify the person with whom she had been…