Miscellaneous

Measuring Patient Experience of Care
There is a growing recognition within the medical-industrial complex that the patient is a key element of the enterprise, and that patient satisfaction, patient experience, patient engagement, patient activation, patient-centeredness are very important...

HIPAAA Information
Health Information PrivacyThe Office for Civil Rights enforces the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information, and the confidentiality provisions of the Patient Safety Rule, which protect identifiable information being used to analyze patient safety events and improve patient safety...

Disclosure of personal health info limited
For the London Free Press – September 28, 2009 Read this on Canoe PRIVACY: The Personal Health Information Protection Act spells out three basic ways that such information can be released The term “Circle of Care” is often used to describe the ability of health-care professionals to share patient information among those treating that patient...

Making connections with clients
In today's L.A. Times, a doctor  talks about her reaction to meeting a patient in an airport restroom. The patient was out of context and the doctor was taken aback, at first not recognizing the patient...

Medical Identity Theft and the unique patient identifier
Medical Identity Theft and the Unique Patient Identifier: One of the goals of HIPAA was to increase the digitization and electronification of information. If we standardize the information and computerize it, we'll drive a lot of the inherent inefficiency out of the healthcare industry...

Firing the Patient
The New York Times has a piece today by Dr. Rahul K. Parikh who writes about dealing with a difficult relative of a patient and deciding to end his relationship with the patient because of it...

Sex Offender Lists
Registries by State and County

Breast Cancer Patient Awarded $8.1 Million in Discrimination Case
Breast Cancer Patient Awarded $8.1 Million in Discrimination Case

Patient Awarded $10 Million
In Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

Storm8 Faces Class Action over Personal Information Harvesting through iPhone Games
Storm8 Faces Class Action of Personal Information Harvesting through iPhone Games

Doctor Paralyzes Patient
Hospital agrees to $3.7 million settlement in malpractice lawsuit.

Medicare Fraud
IJKG, LLC pays government $2.5 million settlement after Bayonne Medical Center overcharged for in and out patient care.

UAB Health System and Franklin Collection Service
allegedly violated the RICO Act in collection practices on delinquent patient accounts.