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It was a pleasure to be on a panel with members of the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General last week at the Massachusetts Medical Society to talk about how physicians can protect health information in our presentation entitled:  “Protecting Health Information: Health Data Security Training.”   We covered the latest in federal law (HIPAA, HITECH) and Massachusetts law. More

A recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association takes on the issue of physician medical identify theft; here’s the abstract: 

It took several months for one physician to learn that she was a victim of medical identity theft. This realization occurred after patients reported that her name was on their Medicare Summary Notices although they had never seen her. A fraudulent clinical practice had enrolled in Medicare using her name without her knowledge.… More