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Surge in Medical Identity Theft Cripples Credit Ratings

Fraud spreading with use of electronic medical records

Jun 13, 09 6:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Watchdog groups warn that medical identity theft is on the rise with the growing use of electronic records that lack proper safeguards, the New York Times reports. Fraudsters use stolen insurance information or Social Security numbers to get free medical care and the victims are often unaware they have been... More »

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fraud • health insurance • identity theft • medical records

(Newser) - The California hospital where Nadya Suleman's octuplets were born has been fined $250,000 for failing to stop employees from snooping into medical files on the famous case. "It's the hospital's job to prevent these breaches from occurring," said a state official shortly after imposing the fine against... More »

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California • parenting • hospitals • privacy • medical records • fine • Kaiser Permanente • octuplets • Nadya Suleman • penalty

(Newser) - The hospital where octuplet mom Nadya Suleman birthed her brood has fired 15 of its employees and disciplined another eight for unauthorized peeking at Suleman’s medical records, the Los Angeles Times reports. The breech, discovered 10 days ago, has been reported to state authorities and to Suleman. The snoopers... More »

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privacy • medical records • invasion of privacy • Kaiser Permanente • octuplets • Nadya Suleman

 Docs Foresee Trouble 
 With Digitizing Records 

For electronic records, money is there but technology isn't

Mar 26, 09 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - The administration's push to digitize health records is raising red flags with an important constituency: doctors. "We have a long way to go," said the lead author of a report out today that shows only 9% of hospitals have computerized records. His article is part of a... More »

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hospitals • New England Journal of Medicine • software • health care reform • open source • digital storage • medical records • online medical records

OPINION

Obama's Digital Records Plan
No Panacea

President's $80B savings claim based on data-free study

Mar 12, 09 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - When President Obama said last week switching the nation’s medical records to electronic data would save some $80 billion a year, Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband thought the same thing: How? It turns out the president’s claims are based on a 2005 RAND Corporation study, funded by interested... More »

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Barack Obama • health care reform • RAND Corporation • medical records • online medical records • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Amid Questions, Biden Releases Medical Records

Gaps in VP hopeful's history raise some lingering issues

Oct 20, 08 2:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - As questions about the medical history of all four national candidates continue to circulate, Joe Biden released a cache of records today that indicate the 65-year-old VP hopeful is in good health, the AP reports. Like many men his age, Biden takes a cholesterol-lowering drug and has an enlarged prostate,... More »

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Joe Biden • Obama 2008 • Election 2008 • medical records • health records • Obama-Biden

Candidates' Medical Records Full of Holes

None of the 4 has disclosed all
health documents

Oct 20, 08 6:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - With just two weeks until the election, none of the four candidates has released full medical documents—and one, Sarah Palin, has released nothing at all. The nominees' refusal to disclose their medical records is a major change from recent practice, when health information about Ronald Reagan, Paul Tsongas, Bill... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Joe Biden • health • Election 2008 • medical records • Sarah Palin

OPINION

Running for Prez? How's Your Health?

Unlike JFK, Mac and Obama must reveal medical woes

Oct 19, 08 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - John F. Kennedy, the standard-bearer of youthful Camelot and the picture of presidential health, suffered from a litany of ailments including osteoporosis, back pain, and Addison’s disease, Robert Dallek writes in the New York Times. But the president’s loyalists buried the secrets for 40 years, prompting Dallek to... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • health • John F. Kennedy • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Election 2008 • medical records • health records

E-Records Improve Care, But Cost Discourages Doctors

Insurers, hospitals are main beneficiaries; feds weigh financial incentives

Jun 19, 08 3:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Doctors aren’t using electronic health records, though they lead to better care, a study reports. Why? The costs are prohibitive, especially for small private practices. E-records do bring savings—but for insurers and hospitals, not doctors who invest in them. The government is experimenting with financial incentives for doctors... More »

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health care • health care industry • doctor • medical records • online medical records • electronic health records

 McCain's 'Real Age' Is 63 

Expert calculates candidate's years in biological time

May 25, 08 2:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - McCain may be 71.8 years old on paper, but his biological age is a youthful 63.7, according to the physician who wrote You: The Owner's Manual. Dr. Michael Roizen made the estimate based on McCain's recently-released medical records (though some details on the candidate's dietary and exercise... More »

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cancer • John McCain • health • Body Mass Index • age • diet • blood pressure • exercise • longevity • heart health • McCain 2008 • medical records

Medical Records Show McCain Fit, Cancer-Free

But senator's medical records also show signs of age

May 23, 08 7:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain's campaign gave the AP the first look at 8 years of the 71-year-old senator's medical records, which show no sign of the melanoma he’s been treated for four times, although he had a lesion removed as recently as February and continues to be at risk for new... More »

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cancer • John McCain • melanoma • McCain 2008 • medical records

McCain to Give Glimpse
of Medical Files Tomorrow

Campaign will allow reporters to look under tight restrictions

May 22, 08 8:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain will give the media a glimpse of his medical records tomorrow, but restrictions will be tight, the Los Angeles Times reports. The campaign will allow a small group of reporters to review 400 pages of documents in 3 hours. They can take notes but can't remove the files... More »

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John McCain • McCain 2008 • medical records

14 More Called Out for Medical Snooping

State says 68 people peeked at celebrities' files at UCLA center

May 13, 08 9:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fourteen more staffers at the UCLA medical center have been accused of snooping in celebrities’ files, raising the number to 68, the Los Angeles Times reports. A new state report blames UCLA for its lack of privacy protection and for failing to report the snooping to authorities. It also provides... More »

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Britney Spears • privacy • celebrity • hospital • UCLA • confidential information • UCLA Medical Center • medical records • Farrah Fawcett

UCLA Medical Center Snoop Indicted

Woman accused of selling stars' medical records to tabloids

Apr 29, 08 11:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - A former UCLA Medical Center employee has been indicted for snooping in the medical records of the stars and selling the information to tabloids, the Los Angeles Times reports. Lawanda Jackson is accused of making thousands from the sale of information about celebrities including Farrah Fawcett and Maria Shriver. She... More »

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privacy • UCLA • National Enquirer • confidential information • UCLA Medical Center • medical records • Farrah Fawcett

Nosy UCLA MDs Got Off Easier Than Other Staff

Some of the non-docs who peeked at Britney's files were fired

Apr 12, 08 11:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - The MDs who wrongly looked at Britney Spears’ medical records while she was being treated on two occasions at UCLA hospitals have gotten off easier than other staff, the Los Angeles Times reports. Of the at least 53 snoopers, 18 non-doctors retired, resigned, or were dismissed, but none of... More »

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Britney Spears • hospitals • privacy • doctor • UCLA • confidential information • Maria Shriver • UCLA Medical Center • medical records • invasion • Farrah Fawcett

UCLA Worker Snooped in Farrah's Files

News of star's
recurring cancer was leaked to tabloid

Apr 3, 08 3:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A UCLA staffer sneaked peeks into actress Farrah Fawcett's confidential health records and apparently leaked information on her treatment for cancer to the media, the Los Angeles Times reports. Sensational headlines about Fawcett's illness subsequently turned up on the website of the National Enquirer before the star had a chance... More »

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cancer • hospitals • privacy • tabloids • confidential information • UCLA Medical Center • medical records • Farrah Fawcett

Patients' Info Swiped Along With Laptop

Unencrypted data on 2,500 government study subjects missing

Mar 25, 08 3:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - A government laptop loaded with personal medical info on thousands of patients just “fell through the cracks,” a top exec with an NIH subsidiary says. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute machine was stolen Feb. 23, apparently at random, from an employee’s car trunk. None of... More »

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identity theft • Government Accountability Office • laptop • computer security • encryption • medical records • National Institutes of Health • private data • breach of security • National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute

Man Admits to Selling Stolen Body Parts

New Jersey dentist ran ring that harvested bones and tissue

Mar 18, 08 9:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - A New Jersey dentist who ran a business plundering body parts from corpses in funeral homes pleaded guilty in Brooklyn today, the Newark Star-Ledger reports. Michael Mastromarino, 44, admitted to removing bones and tissue from two dozen corpses, which were sold to tissue processors for use in transplants and other... More »

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New Jersey • corruption • transplant • medical records • Michael Mastromarino • Biomedical Tissue Services • funeral home • blood sample • grand larceny • forgery • body stealing

UCLA Staff Peeked Into Brit's Records

Hospital moving to fire 13 after second wave of Spears snooping

Mar 14, 08 7:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - A California hospital is trying to terminate some 13 employees, and has already disciplined others, for poking around in Britney Spears’ medical records, the Los Angeles Times reports. The firings come after bosses at UCLA Medical Center specifically warned employees about unnecessary perusal of patient files on the morning of... More »

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Britney Spears • nurses • hospitals • discipline • UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital • confidential information • psych ward • UCLA Medical Center • medical records

McCain Mum on Health History

Senator has battled melanoma 4 times since 1993

Mar 9, 08 2:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain released 15,000 pages of medical records when he ran for president in 2000, but as the nation now contemplates making the 71-year-old the oldest man to occupy the Oval Office, McCain's campaign is largely silent. The Arizona senator has had four melanomas, a potentially fatal form of... More »

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cancer • John McCain • health • surgery • melanoma • medical records • psychological records

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