Annual Medical Report comments on the New York Times article about the sale of prescription data: However, the New York Times article failed to mention prescription data providers Ingenix, owned by UnitedHealth Group Inc., and Milliman, Inc. For example, one of Milliman, Inc.’s information exchange products, IntelliScript, is: “a data aggregation service that provides individual…
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Google, Microsoft execs criticize Obama's EHR plan
Top executives at Google and Microsoft sharply questioned the structure of the Obama administration’s $20 billion health information technology plan at a meeting of a presidential technology council on Thursday. […] [David Blumenthal, national coordinator for health information technology] emphasized the importance of ensuring patient privacy in a national health system and said unless there…
Skyward breach affects St. Lucie County SD workers
[St. Lucie County School District] employees will receive a letter this week from a school district computer contractor advising them that an error during recent work may have sent their personal information to other school districts. The employee information may include Social Security numbers, home phone numbers and home addresses, said Janice Karst, schools communications…
Tories to let patients amend medical records online
Patients could amend their own medical records and leave comments on symptoms, medication and treatment, under radical plans unveiled by the Conservatives today. In a move which could be dubbed “Wiki-health”, a Tory government under David Cameron will allow people to access online health records, which are currently restricted. Patients would be prevented from changing…
And you thought a prescription was private
More than 10 years after she tried without success to have a baby, Marcy Campbell Krinsk is still receiving painful reminders in her mail. The ads and promotions started after she bought fertility drugs at a pharmacy in San Diego. […] Like many other people, Ms. Krinsk thought that her prescription information was private. But…
Major credit card racket busted, 6 held
Panaji police busted an international credit card fraud involving cloning of cards and using them to gamble in offshore casinos in Goa on Friday. Police say they cracked the racket after arresting six persons from Mumbai and suspect that those arrested may allegedly be part of a group which either collected or hacked legitimate credit…