medical records news from FierceHealthIT
News
GA Blue plan sends benefit letters to wrong addresses
Last week, Georgia's largest health insurer concluded that it sent about 202,000 benefits letters containing personal and health information to the wrong addresses, courtesy of a systems error. Blue Read more...
SC plans to launch Medicaid HIE
South Carolina officials have set plans to launch a health information exchange for the state's 700,000 Medicaid patients. The South Carolina Health Information Exchange, known as SCIEx, will connect Read more...
Millions of patient billing records stolen from UT hospital
Billing records for about 2.2 million patients and guarantors were stolen last week from the University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics, just one more in what appears to be a rapidly growing flood of Read more...
Millions of patient billing records stolen from UT hospital
Billing records for about 2.2 million patients and guarantors were stolen last week from the University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics, just one more in what appears to be a rapidly growing flood of Read more...
HHS awards contract for medical identity fraud study
HHS's Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded a $450,000 conract to Booz Allen Hamilton to scope out the size of the medical identity theft problem in the Read more...
UnitedHealthcare breach leads to UC Irvine identity thefts
After months of investigation, it looks like a data breach at health plan UnitedHealthcare Services may be behind a large-scale rash of identity theft taking place at the University of California, Read more...
Identity thieves getting better at stealing patient data
Where they once focused on banking data and credit card statements, identity thieves have become increasingly focused on breaking into patient data systems, observers say. Medical records offer a Read more...
UCLA staff accused of viewing Britney Spears' records
In what is unfortunately an all-too-predictable episode, UCLA Medical Center executives have said that they're investigating 13 staff members who seem to have accessed Britney Spears' medical Read more...
UCLA staff accused of viewing Britney Spears' records
In what is unfortunately an all-too-predictable episode, UCLA Medical Center executives have said that they're investigating 13 staff members who seem to have accessed Britney Spears' medical records Read more...
Case study: Henry Ford digitizing referred patients' records
Detroit, MI-based Henry Ford Health System, a regional system which includes six hospitals and 1,800 affiliated physicians, has signed a deal under which it will digitize records from all providers Read more...
Get more medical records coverage at:
Paid Research Reports
- Stakeholder Opinions: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention - Adverse events with drug-eluting stents demand a new safety standard
- Impact of Pharmacogenomics on Public Healthcare Policy
- The Cardiovascular Disorders Market Outlook to 2012
- 2008 Trends to Watch: Pharmaceutical Technology
- Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement: Strategies for market access across the US, Europe, Japan and other key geographies