Jack Doyle reports: GPs are to be forced to hand over confidential records on all their patients’ drinking habits, waist sizes and illnesses. The files will be stored in a giant information bank that privacy campaigners say represents the ‘biggest data grab in NHS history’. They warned the move would end patient confidentiality and hand…
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Identity theft charges prompts Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare to tighten policies
Jennifer Portman reports on yet another refund fraud ring involving a hospital employee as the source of personal information: Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare officials modified policies to help better protect the privacy of patients’ personal information and offered identity protection services to more than 100 patients after learning last year that a hospital employee was suspected…
Eleventh Circuit ruling on how to count ID theft "victims" for purposes of sentencing guidelines
In April 2011, I blogged about two medical office assistants who had been charged criminally under HIPAA for stealing patient information and providing it to others for an ID theft/fraud ring. Today, I learned from a post by Al Saikali on the Data Security Law Journal that Erica Hall had appealed her sentence to the…
Leader of Florida ID theft ring convicted
Back in June 2012, the Department of Justice announced that Alci Bonannee had been arrested and charged with ID theft in a massive tax refund fraud scheme. At the time, they found evidence that over 1,000 fraudulent returns had been filed by Bonannee and her co-conspirators between January 2011 and June 6, 2012. This week, Bonannee was…
Leader of Florida ID theft ring convicted
Back in June 2012, the Department of Justice announced that Alci Bonannee had been arrested and charged with ID theft in a massive tax refund fraud scheme. At the time, they found evidence that over 1,000 fraudulent returns had been filed by Bonannee and her co-conspirators between January 2011 and June 6, 2012. This week, Bonannee was…
Ca: Sources say information accessed related to Noelle Paquette murder
More snoops fired. Tyler Kula reports: Hospital staff have reportedly been fired after a privacy breach at Bluewater Health. Multiple sources told The Observer Monday as many as 17 people were dismissed after non-clinical staff accessed patient information through a password-protected system — without authorization — earlier this month. Sources told The Observer that at…