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
Tags: Blue Cross, Data breeches, data security, health Care Fraud, Health Net, HIPAA, HITECH, medical identity theft
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Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 / Fraud, Health Care Fraud, Identity Theft, Medical IdentityTheft.
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