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  Patient Guide: When Health Care Providers May Communicate About You with Your Family, Friends, or Others Involved in Your Care Provider Guide: Communicating with a Patient’s Family, Friends, or Others Involved in a Patient’s Care

Sessional GPs are being barred from obtaining personal prescribing data that will be essential for revalidation. IT systems including EMIS, the system most widely used in UK practices, do not recognise sessional GPs’ prescribing numbers, thus blocking access to their personal prescribing data. The problem remains despite the DoH agreeing that sessional GPs should have…

Tim McGlone reports: Authorities say they stopped a local identity theft ring involving an emergency room clerk who stole patient data, a civic league official who is accused of using his neighbors’ personal information and two car salesmen accused of orchestrating the scam. […] The scheme involved using personal information from unknowing individuals in order…

Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) expects soon to introduce new health information technology legislation in the U.S. House. The bill would build on the proposed PRO(TECH)T Act, H.R. 6357, from the Energy and Commerce Committee and already under House consideration. Stark is chair of the Ways and Means health subcommittee. The new legislation would retain about…

TEESDALE is at the centre of the latest data loss scandal after a memory stick containing information on hundreds of NHS mental health patients was found by a member of the public in a Barnard Castle street. The Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Trust, whose jurisdiction Teesdale falls within, said the ‘serious breach of patient…

James Craven reports: As more seniors enter nursing homes, especially those with cognitive impairments, and depend on others for their basic needs and security, those who prey on them are always looking for access. Southington brothers James and Jamelle Byrd are the chief suspects in a scheme to take identification materials from patients at a…