Thanks to a site visitor who alerted me to this: Here’s another one for the 2009 chronology, this one involving Hegarty Chiropractic in Rancho Cordova, California. Medical records, social security numbers, total charts just dumped in a dumpster for anyone to find. And they did. The police took possession of the files and turned them…
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CO: 150 missing hospital patient records found
All 150 patient records missing for three months from Saint Joseph Hospital and Lutheran Medical Center have been found, according to Exempla Healthcare and FedEx. The documents had been lost by FedEx while being shipped between two third-party groups doing compliance and audit checks to make sure Exempla Healthcare meets complex Medicare requirements. FedEx spokesman…
UnitedHealth Group To Issue Machine-Readable Patient ID Cards
This week, UnitedHealth Group announced that it will issue by the end of 2009 nearly 25 million machine-readable patient identification cards, Modern Healthcare reports. The patient ID cards will provide patient benefit-eligibility information, access to patients’ personal health records and real-time claim adjudication. The cards will comply with national standards established by the federal Workgroup…
2 hospital employees allegedly steal from patient, 79
Kelly Green reports: A 79-year-old woman was the victim of credit card and check theft by two hospital employees in separate incidents during her stay in a Scottsdale hospital, police said. The victim was receiving treatment for a heart condition at Scottsdale Healthcare Shea in December 2008 when the two employees allegedly stole credit cards…
And here I thought the Senate forgot…
Yesterday, January 28th, Senator Dorgan introduced S. Res. 25, expressing support for January 28th as National Data Privacy Day. The resolution passed the Senate. I don’t see where President Obama made any proclamation about the day, although he was somewhat understandably preoccupied with things like our economy totally tanking. Given all the concerns that have…
Safeguards Are Needed to Protect Patients’ Data (letter)
Mark Leavitt, chairman of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, has a letter to the editor in the New York Times: Re “Privacy Issue Complicates Push to Link Medical Data†(news article, Jan. 18): Consumer groups and some members of Congress rightly express concern that President Obama’s plan to stimulate the use of information…