Seen at MySuncoast.com: Six people in Miami are facing federal fraud charges in an alleged scheme to steal patient information from a hospital. Miami U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta said Tuesday the six people used the stolen information to submit about $8 million in false claims to Medicare. The information involving about 1,500 people was…
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Illinois Eye Center records accessed
Mike Maciag of the Journal Star reports: A former Illinois Eye Center employee could have used confidential patient information for identity theft. According to a letter the eye center sent last week to affected patients, the records obtained include patient names, Social Security numbers and birthdates. It is believed females between ages 18 and 25…
Genetic Privacy Page
The World Privacy Forum has published a new page on genetic privacy outlining basic policy issues and collecting World Privacy Forum work in the area. The page also links to key external research being done in privacy and genetics, and also links to key organizations doing work in this area in the U.S. and the…
Ontario’s Example on Privacy
Ann Cavoukian, the Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, has a letter to the editor in the New York Times in which she recommends Canadian medical privacy law as a model for us: Re “Safeguarding Private Medical Data†(editorial, March 26): I couldn’t agree with you more. In Ontario, we take privacy very seriously, especially when it…
Cn: Patients' medical records to go online
Cai Wajun writes in the Shanghai Daily: Under a project to establish a digital health database for people in the city, residents now can view their medical tests and records through e-mails from www.smmail.cn, a government-run Website. Yueyang Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital is the first to participate in the service and about a…
Electronic Health Records wired for abuse (Op-Ed)
Dr. Deborah Peel, founder of PatientPrivacyRights.org, had an Op-Ed in yesterday’s Boston Herald: “Oops! They did it to Britney again.†No, it’s not a song parody, but a reflection of the poor state of American health privacy – something Bay Staters should think about as their Legislature considers a bill to mandate Electronic Health Records…