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Author: Dissent

UK: Access to prescribing data blocked for sessional GPs

Posted on September 17, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

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…

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VA: Emergency room clerk pleads guilty to identity theft of patient

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Dissent

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…

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Stark Readies I.T. Legislation

Posted on September 16, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

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…

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UK: Confidential patient data lost on Teesdale street

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Dissent

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…

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Brothers accused of stealing seniors' IDs

Posted on September 13, 2008 by Dissent

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…

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Medical ID theft spreading; preparation and training prescribed

Posted on September 12, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

Maureen McKinney reports: Medical identity theft accounts for about 3 percent of the 9 million cases of identity theft that occur in the United States annually. But detection often proves difficult because consumers lack regular access to their medical information, and records containing false identity information spread fast and wide via electronic billing and payment…

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