Resources for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Raising awareness of medical identity theft
www.dentaleconomics.com Gaps in the HIPAA privacy rule may not extend to medical identity theft protection. Therefore, consumers must take precautions to safeguard and monitor their health information in order to protect themselves against possible financial ruin and health record fraud caused by medical identity theft, according to an article published in the October 2008 issue of the Journal of AHIMA. Medical identity theft's rising crime rate could have a devastating effect due to the incorrect information that may be entered into the health records of victimized patients exposing them to improper and potentially life-threatening treatment.
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