Our migration to electronic medical records probably does not help much either.
Pam Dixon, executive director of the Global Forum of the nonprofit privacy and author of a report on medical identity theft, warns that without extensive safeguards, we will see this type of mount soaring crime.
Remember the medical clerk in Florida a few years ago who downloaded the files of more than 1,000 Medicare patients and gave them to a relative, who made $ 2.8 million in fraudulent claims with them?
While we agree with the president to call for electronic medical records (EMR), we hope that this is done with the strategy and foresight. Many strategy and foresight. Who wants to get a surprise bill for dialysis of a diabetic in Maryland or the requirement of a scam hooked in Oregon?
straightening of stolen health care is a special kind of red tape nightmare. privacy laws and strict patient decentralized bureaucracy insurance providers complicates things for Kafka-esque levels.
So we will indeed proceed in the new world of electronic medical records, but are ensuring that some of the $ 19 billion expected for the job is used to adequately protect patient information.
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