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…
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…
SafeMed gets the call from Google
Keith Darce of Copley News Service writes: Internet giant Google has tapped a medical software developer in San Diego to provide a key element of its test project that lets people create comprehensive medical records on the Web.SafeMed’s application sifts through vast medical databases and personal health records in the blink of an eye to…
National health records network to hook up with Google, Microsoft
Bob Brewin writes in Government Executive: The federal office in charge of creating a national network of electronic health records plans to integrate the system with the health care databases that Google and Microsoft launched last year, on which individuals can store their health records, a top official with the Health and Human Services Department…
Perlegen strikes back on privacy
Healthcare IT News has this story: Last week, patient privacy advocate Deborah Peel, MD, wrote a letter to Healthcare IT News attacking Perlegen Sciences’ plans to work with an EMR vendor to use patient data for genetics research. In a new letter, Perlegen strikes back at Peel. To the editor, Healthcare IT News: We are…