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Massachusetts medical records dispute highlights competition over primary care
Getting and keeping primary-care doctors is, if anything, is a more urgent matter than in the past--so it's small wonder that hospitals would engage in trench warfare to keep them on board. That... Read more...
FL hospital employee sells medical records to personal injury attourney
Just when you thought you'd heard about every possible way to misuse medical information, here's another one for your personal library of true health information crimes. In this case, according to... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Physician offices reluctant to share medical records
While in most cases, patients may have the absolute right to get their medical records from their doctors--at fees strictly limited by HIPAA--many practices seem reluctant to share them. This column... Read more...
NYC's Health & Hospitals Corp. faces charges of medical record cover-ups
About a year ago, we reported how a woman waiting for psychiatric care in the lobby of one of the public hospitals run by the New York's Health & Hospitals Corp. fell on the floor and was allowed... Read more...
Beth Israel opens doctors' notes to patients
Many doctors would cringe if they thought patients were going to read the honest, uncensored notes captured in the patients' medical records. Some would probably refuse to participate, arguing that... Read more...
Kaiser fined $250,000 for staff snooping into octuplet mom's records
As if mother of octuplets Nadya Suleman hasn't gotten enough press, now she's in the news again--this time because someone violated her rights. California's health regulators have fined Kaiser... Read more...
CMS officials say they want RAC program to be fair
To date, the CMS's Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program has done little but strike fear into the hearts of providers, many of whom say their experiences with RACs have been less than pleasant.... Read more...
FL hospital employees fired after peeking at NFL player's records
First Hollywood celebrities, now professional athletes? According to Modern Healthcare, 20 employees at Shands Jacksonville Medical Center were fired after viewing and discussing the medical records... Read more...
U of California facility placed under state supervision
Citing its anesthesiology department's "inability to provide quality healthcare in a safe environment," the University of California, Irvine Medical Center has been placed under state supervision.... Read more...
Study: Hospitalized kids suffer too many infections
A new study released this week concludes that hospitalized children suffer a high rate of infections and other preventable complications that lead to longer stays and cost millions of dollars. The... Read more...
