Patient ID information stolen at Memorial hospitals
April 13th, 2012
Ex-employees wanted to file false tax returns
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Health privacy issues can be resolved without obstructing care
April 9th, 2012
Issues with patient privacy today are significant but not insurmountable.
PPR in the Wall Street Journal
February 27th, 2012
Winning the Debate Against Unique Patient Identifiers
Physician’s computers were stolen
December 28th, 2011
Five computers containing medical and personal information of more than 3,000 patients were stolen from a Stone Oak physician's office in October.
The Case for Informed Consent
August 31st, 2010
Patient Privacy Rights releases white paper making the Case for Informed Consent with Health IT
EMR Data Theft Booming
March 26th, 2010
Fraud resulting from exposure of electronic medical records has risen from 3% in 2008 to 7% in 2009, a 112% increase, researcher says.
Sheriff: ID theft ring pilfered files at NU physicians’ group
March 25th, 2010
The things you can do with stolen medical records, and why we need proper security and privacy.
Hospital Workers Sharing Music? They May Also Be Sharing Your Medical Records
February 20th, 2009
Health care workers using Gnutella or other peer-to-peer (P2P) networks to share music and video, may be putting you at risk for medical identity...
Uncovering the identity trade business
February 2nd, 2009
When Brandon Michael rolled up a storage-unit door in Denver on New Year’s Day to sort through the contents he had just purchased at...
Mitigating Medical Identity Theft
July 1st, 2008
Medical identity theft accounts for 3 percent of identity theft crimes, or 249,000 of the estimated 8.3 million people who had their identities stolen...