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- Patient Portals At Leitchfield Hospital Are Breached In Cyber Attack; Officials Say It Did Not Involve Any Data In State System
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center's patient portals were the target of a sophisticated cyber attack earlier this year, which may have breached protected patient health information, reports The Record,...
- Medical Identity Theft Increasing; Survey Says 43% Of Leaks Involve Medical Records
Modern technology has brought about an increase in identity theft and lately in a particularly dangerous form: medical identity theft. According to a survey conducted by the Identity Theft Resource Center, 43 percent of all record breaches in personal...
- Websites That Misled Kentuckians Seeking Health Insurance Are Taken Down, Blocked Or Corrected
Three websites that were misleading Kentuckians about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and about the state's health-insurance exchange have either been taken down, corrected or blocked by the state attorney general's Office of Consumer...
- Medical Records Of 1,018 Patients Stolen At Lexington Clinic, But No Apparent Identity Theft
One of the fears of electronic health records is that personal information can be stolen en masse, a possibility that became a reality when a laptop computer was stolen at the Lexington Clinic. The machine was taken Dec. 7 from the clinic's...
- Card Making For Cancer Survivors
by Jill Adler, M.S., Coordinator , Patient Information Services Alvin & Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute Big cards, small cards, card with buttons, cards with stamps, cards with pink ribbons and cards with stickers adorned the Cancer Institute's...
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Beware of identity thieves exploiting the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to get personal information
As if buying health insurance isn't confusing enough, the Better Business Bureau has sent out a series of releases warning people to beware of scam artists posing as callers claiming to be from the federal government. The scam is mostly targeting small business owners, and people who are 65 and older or have disabilities.
The caller informs you that you've been selected to receive insurance cards through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but before the card can be mailed, they need your personal information, such as a credit card, Social Security number or Medicare ID. The callers may seem credible, often possessing personal information, such as a bank account number or routing number.
If someone gets such a call, they should immediately hang up, the BBB says. Don't press any buttons and don't return voice mails. The government usually communicates through mail, but if they call, they will already have all the necessary personal information. (Read more)
The caller informs you that you've been selected to receive insurance cards through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but before the card can be mailed, they need your personal information, such as a credit card, Social Security number or Medicare ID. The callers may seem credible, often possessing personal information, such as a bank account number or routing number.
If someone gets such a call, they should immediately hang up, the BBB says. Don't press any buttons and don't return voice mails. The government usually communicates through mail, but if they call, they will already have all the necessary personal information. (Read more)
- Patient Portals At Leitchfield Hospital Are Breached In Cyber Attack; Officials Say It Did Not Involve Any Data In State System
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center's patient portals were the target of a sophisticated cyber attack earlier this year, which may have breached protected patient health information, reports The Record,...
- Medical Identity Theft Increasing; Survey Says 43% Of Leaks Involve Medical Records
Modern technology has brought about an increase in identity theft and lately in a particularly dangerous form: medical identity theft. According to a survey conducted by the Identity Theft Resource Center, 43 percent of all record breaches in personal...
- Websites That Misled Kentuckians Seeking Health Insurance Are Taken Down, Blocked Or Corrected
Three websites that were misleading Kentuckians about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and about the state's health-insurance exchange have either been taken down, corrected or blocked by the state attorney general's Office of Consumer...
- Medical Records Of 1,018 Patients Stolen At Lexington Clinic, But No Apparent Identity Theft
One of the fears of electronic health records is that personal information can be stolen en masse, a possibility that became a reality when a laptop computer was stolen at the Lexington Clinic. The machine was taken Dec. 7 from the clinic's...
- Card Making For Cancer Survivors
by Jill Adler, M.S., Coordinator , Patient Information Services Alvin & Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute Big cards, small cards, card with buttons, cards with stamps, cards with pink ribbons and cards with stickers adorned the Cancer Institute's...