Tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal has an article about identity theft at health care organizations. The money quote:

Hospital patients are vulnerable in part because they are unlikely to detect anything amiss. Some may never leave the hospital. A team of alleged identity thieves arrested in 2003 in New Jersey were targeting the terminally ill, according to police.

Hospitals and other health care groups are just as much at risk as anyone dealing with personal information. What exacerbates the crime is the idea of anticipated latency between theft and the likelihood that somebody will notice.