Medical Records Archives - Page 5 of 6

July 17, 2018

Bill Thompson Jul 17, 2018 Access to Courts, Class Action, Daily, Data Breach, Ethics, Hospitals, Medical Records, Patient Bill of Rights, Quality Fraud Comments Off

Hospital Sued By Ex Employees For Retaliatory Firings

The Cost Of Quality Fraud

Bill Thompson Jul 9, 2018 Access, Access to Courts, Class Action, Constitution, Courts, Damages, Data Breach, Medical Error, Medical Records, Negligence, Patient Bill of Rights, Quality Fraud, Weekly Comments Off

I am starting a series of posts and daily news finds on Data Breach, Quality Fraud and the reasons behind our tremendously expensive health care. Before starting that, I wanted to re-post an article I published a couple of years ago. The Radiology Regional data breach mentioned below was successfully resolved recently. The 21CO data […]

June 28, 2018

Bill Thompson Jun 28, 2018 Access, Daily, Ethics, Health, Hospitals, Medical Error, Medical Literature, Medical Records, News, Products, Science, Technology Comments Off

You need to know about the growing use of artificial intelligence in medicine. USC Grading Surgeons Using AI “Precision Medicine” and AI NEJM: AI In Medical Decision Making

June 27, 2018

Bill Thompson Jun 27, 2018 Class Action, Daily, Data Breach, Medical Records, News Comments Off

As we close our successful Radiology Regional data breach class action, we note that the problem continues. Call us if you are a victim of data breach and identity theft of your sensitive patient information. MD Anderson’s $4.4M HIPPA violation JAMA: Ancestry DNA services and the risk of data breach

Stark and Quality Fraud

Bill Thompson Jun 25, 2018 Access, Ethics, Government, Health, Hospitals, Insurance, Insurance Companies, Medical Error, Medical Literature, Medical Malpractice, Medical Records, Nursing Home, Peer Review, Pharma, Quality Fraud, Statistics, Weekly Comments Off

On my blog, I write a lot about #QualityFraud. What this concept means to me is the inflated cost of medicine and other health care costs passed on to consumers through concealment and deception of the quality of the services we are being provided. Unlike any other industrialized country, our health care sector is opaque […]