It's Never To Late - Or Is It?

Hospital admits error in handling I.D. theft

by By Glenn Nyback

Sunday May 11, 2008, 5:15 PM

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- As tens of thousands of Staten Island University Hospital patients seethe over the decision by hospital administrators to wait four months before informing them that a computer containing their personal information was stolen, SIUH's chief executive conceded officials could have handled the situation differently.

Frankly, I'm surprised that the hospital waited except maybe they thought it would all just go away by itself. With possible penalties of up to $92,ooo per victim, this could get expensive.

....The hospital only 10 days ago began informing 88,000 patients whose names, Social Security and health insurance numbers were included on a password-protected desktop computer stolen from the hospital's Rosebank billing office in December....

..... All 88,000 were offered a year of free credit monitoring from Equifax.

And that's all they are going to get is credit monitoring, That is sad, especially if the victims become victims again of Medical Identity Theft. Either way, they will not get any restoration unless they pay for and handle it themselves, Spending about 600 hours and unknown amounts of money to fix any problems.

...If the personal information hasn't been used yet, it probably won't be, said Jeff Sovern, a law professor at St. John's University School of Law.
(Full text at SILive.com)

Professor Jeff needs to read more about Identity Theft. These people may not be victims for years and then once used there information will be sold again.

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