It’s difficult not to feel bad for someone like Fred Wilkie. The Hudson resident says he normally makes an effort to shred all his personal documents in order to guard against identity theft. So he was particularly disappointed to learn Tuesday that some of his confidential personal and financial information was found scattered across Amherst…
Category: Health Data
National Patient ID Would Violate Patient Privacy Rights
Responding to a major study released yesterday by the Rand Corporation, Citizens’ Council on Health Care says Congress should maintain its long-standing prohibition on development of a national patient identification number, otherwise known as the Unique Patient Identifier (UPI). “Congress must dismiss the data industry’s apparent call to centralize, nationalize and socialize private medical information….
UK: Patients 'at risk as after medical records lost'
Rob Pattinson reports: PRIVATE medical records blunders has seen patients put at potential risk, a probe reveals today. Cases of mislaid doctors’ notes, lost patient files, and child protection reports going missing have been recorded over the last three years. Now data bosses have warned the failure to keep information safe could lead to records…
Insider theft suspected as CIGNA reports theft of member data
On September 23rd, CIGNA HealthCare informed the Maryland Attorney General’s Office that it had been notified by law enforcement that an individual had stolen some residents’ personal information and used it to file fraudulent tax returns in another state. The individual, who was arrested and charged, is the brother of a former CIGNA employee who…
Sentara E-R dept. worker among 3 facing federal ID theft charges
An employee at Sentara Port Warwick emergency department is among those indicted on federal charges including ID theft and fraud. According to the indictment, Miracle Howard, an ER patient intake representative, stole driver’s license and credit card information from patients and others and gave it to Latresa Totten and Warnette Morris. […] The indictment…
Working Together on Health Information Privacy
Remarks at the Sixth Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust Address by Elizabeth Denham, Assistant Privacy Commissioner Fredericton, New Brunswick October 20, 2008 We want to find ways to let EHR technology achieve its promise while at the same time protecting this pivotal right we call privacy. We are acutely aware of the many…