Parija Kavilanz reports: There’s a group of people who really love the U.S. health care system — the fraudsters, scammers and organized criminal gangs who are bilking the system of as much as $100 billion a year. Health care identity theft dominated all other crimes in the sector last year, according to Louis Saccoccio, executive…
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Health care: A 'goldmine' for fraudsters
Parija Kavilanz reports: There’s a group of people who really love the U.S. health care system — the fraudsters, scammers and organized criminal gangs who are bilking the system of as much as $100 billion a year. Health care identity theft dominated all other crimes in the sector last year, according to Louis Saccoccio, executive…
On Managing Your Own Health Records
By Doug Pollack, Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts One of the panels at the Consumer Electronics Show Digital Health Summit is asking a really interesting question: Who will you trust with your health data? As described in an article in Healthcare IT News on healthcare data privacy and security, there have been numerous data…
Looking back on 2009
The breach of Heartland Payment Systems grabbed the headlines for much of the year and the entire population of Belize had their birth details stolen when a government employee left a laptop in a car, but what else went on? Your details, my friend, were blowing in the wind Although the number of breaches involving…
Meaningful use' criteria released
David Burda writes on ModernHealthcare.com: HHS issued two sets of much-anticipated federal regulations that significantly further the government’s healthcare information technology adoption agenda. The first set of regulations lists the “meaningful use” criteria that healthcare providers must meet to qualify for federal IT subsidies based on how they use their electronic health records. The second…
Government Grapples With EMR Security, Privacy
Mitch Wagner reports: While electronic medical records promise massive opportunities for health benefits, the privacy and security risks are equally enormous. The Obama administration has set an ambitious goal — to get electronic medical records on file for every American by 2014. The administration is offering powerful incentives: $20 billion for EMRs included in the…