Adam Wilson reports: One of the more intensive lobbying battles last year was over “data mining” by drug companies, which use lists of prescriptions from pharmacies to find doctors who weren’t prescribing what they were selling. Then they’d pay the doctor a visit and suggest Brand X. The bill died, but its successor has broader…
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CO: 2 arrested in case of stolen hospital records (follow-up)
Police have arrested both people wanted in connection with several hundred cases of identity theft uncovered by 9Wants to Know. Many of the thefts originated in the emergency room of a local hospital. […] Philbin is accused of stealing the hospital records of at least 150 patients at St. Anthony Central Hospital who went into…
Attorney General Brown Announces Charges Against Physician Accused of Prescription Drug Fraud
From the press release: Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that charges were filed against Dr. Lisa Barden of Rancho Cucumonga, who broke the law and “wrecked havoc” on the lives of patients whose identities she stole to obtain highly addictive pain killers. “This physician wrecked havoc on the lives of dozens of…
MA: Laptops stolen from Baystate Medical
Several laptops were stolen from Baystate Medical Center’s Pediatrics department. Some of those computers had patient information on them. Letters went to all of the affected parents to notify them of the situation. Read more on WWLP
UK: GPs win battle to stop researchers' records access
Ministers have scrapped plans that would have granted researchers access to identifiable medical records without patient consent after an uproar among GPs over patient confidentiality. A passage included in the draft NHS Constitution, which could have granted researchers unrestricted access to patient data, has been dropped from the final document. The Department of Health confirmed…
AMA Wins Legal Victory for Physicians in Privacy Court Case
Statement attributable to: Jeremy Lazarus, MD Board Member, AMA “Physicians have won a major victory for preserving their privacy in the recent ruling by the D.C. Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals. The American Medical Association successfully fought to preserve protections against public disclosure of Medicare payments to physicians. “The court found that…