The Associated Press reports: A Colorado man is accused of stealing an Army veteran’s identity and using it for 24 years to get married, obtain free medical treatment and even serve as president of a VFW post. Mark Mulcahy, 46, faces felony charges of identity theft, forgery and criminal impersonation. He was being held in…
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Five Dollars Buys Man Hundreds of Private Medical Records
Medical records are supposed to be between a person and their doctor, but a Maryland man suddenly found himself the owner of hundreds of patients’ most private information. Inside a unit at the Fort Knox storage facility, there’s a potential gold mine of information, including boxes of people’s medical records. On man unwittingly bought all…
Found in a standard medical release form
From the Dobbs Health Report: Found in a standard medical release form Actual text. Comments in parens. HEALTH OVERSIGHT ACTIVITIES. Our practice may disclose your PHI (personal health information) to a health oversight agency for activities authorized by law. […] RESEARCH Our practice may use and disclose your PHI for research purposes in certain limited…
Effort To Improve Patient Records Is Drawing A Crowd
The need for better electronic patient records has gotten a lot of attention lately.But compiling all that data is just part of the battle. Doctors and patients still have to know what to do with those records. So ActiveHealth Management, a unit of Aetna (NYSE:AEF) (NYSE:AET) AET, aims to go that extra step. It not…
Patient privacy rights advocate attacks plans to mine medical records
From Health IT News: Deborah Peel, founder and chairman of Patient Privacy Rights, takes exception to a plan by Mountain View, Calif. -based Perlegen Sciences, Inc. to collaborate with an undisclosed electronic medical records vendor to identify and develop genetic markers that predict how patients are likely to respond to specific medical treatments. The New…
EMR vendor to share patient data with genetics research firm
Richard Pizzi of Healthcare IT News reports: Perlegen Sciences, Inc., a company exploring the clinical application of genetic research, plans to collaborate with an undisclosed electronic medical records vendor to identify and develop genetic markers that predict how patients are likely to respond to specific medical treatments. Under the terms of the agreement, Perlegen, based…