The Case for Informed Consent
August 31st, 2010
Patient Privacy Rights releases white paper making the Case for Informed Consent with Health IT
What could your health records reveal? Take control. Protect your privacy, liberty and opportunities.
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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...
Data Breach Reports Up 69 Percent in 2008
June 30th, 2008
Businesses, governments and universities reported a record number of data breaches in the first half of this year, a 69 percent increase over the...
Medical ID theft can injure finances, endanger lives
June 2nd, 2008
When someone steals your identity, obtains loans in your name and then stiffs the lenders, the effects on your credit report can be devastating....
Co-defendant in patient-ID theft scheme gets prison term
July 31st, 2007
The co-defendant in an extensive identity-theft scheme that targeted hospital patients was sentenced today to two years and three months in prison. Linda D....
Trends in Identity Theft
February 15th, 2007
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released its Annual List of Top Consumer Complaints. This year–for the seventh year in a row–Identity Theft is...