TN: Docs faxing patients’ data to Indiana company
Tennessean
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“Doctors’ offices in Tennessee have been accidentally sending patient information, including Social Security numbers and medical histories, to an Indiana businessman’s fax machine for the past three years. The sensitive medical information was supposed to be sent to the Tennessee Department of Human Services, but Bill Keith, owner of SunRise Solar Inc. in Indiana, says hundreds of confidential medical faxes having been coming to him. ‘This is a total breach of privacy,’ Keith said. ‘This is supposed to be confidential, and it just so happens we have some scruples here and wouldn’t do anything with that information. We’ve shredded them, but you can have a file an inch thick in no time.'”
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The technology of fax has to be decades old. And, yet, the TN state gooferment still relies upon it.
There are so many things that could be done. Doesn’t take a genius to figure them out.
Why can’t they use encrypted email?
Why can’t they require a “handshake code” before faxing?
Why can’t the TN gooferment call the docs to pick up their forms?
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