It seems that consumers grow more fearful everyday about the privacy of their medical records a new survey shows. Besides falling into the wrong hands they are afraid of fraud, theft and a host of other problems that keep them up at night. The survey commissioned by EpicTide and conducted by The Benchmarking Company, an…

The US Senate has passed a new law that would make it illegal to get your hands on phone number if you got them by being deceptive. That’s great. However I noticed that this only came up after the whole Hewlitt Packard problem that was going on. I somehow doubt it had much to do…

The HIPAA act should protect our medical privacy but do hospital officials go to far for fear of being sued? In this article are a few cases that make you question the HIPAA and the people who are supposed to follow the rules, in this case they seem to go overboard. Although it started as…

A woman in Milwaukee is suing Community Memorial Hospital in Menomonee Falls because she says that they gave personal medical information to her mother. She says that while in the hospital to give birth a nurse came into her room and asked her personal and private questions in front of her mother. She felt forced…

Kaiser Permanente in California came up with the idea to take all patients records and change them over to electronic formats but that was easier said than done apparently. There are undertaking a lot of problems and the SVP of the project has quit.

Your privacy when it comes to medical data should be a given but many times that is not the case. You would be surprised to find out that your private files is often more like an open book. Read more about this.