Posts Tagged ‘HIPAA’

Medical Identity Theft – It can happen to you!

Think again if you believe Medical Identity Theft can’t happen to you. Watch this news clip from ABC news and Good Morning America:

Medical Identity Theft from a Victims Perspective

See Fox News clip on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz__DUISB6E&feature=player_embedded

Medical Identity Theft continues through other sources

Data breeches, mismanagement of files, lost hard drives, health plans are more at risk, not just hospitals for identity theft. Last month, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Tennessee revealed that up to 1 million patients could be impacted by the theft of 57 computer hard drives that were encoded but not encrypted.
Read article by Caralyn Davis at: http://www.fiercehealthpayer.com/story/data-breaches-another-opportunity-bad-publicity/2010-05-17?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal#ixzz0oEOm6c5P