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| Marsha... |
 Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:47 pm |
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Our hospital uses electronic medical records and within the past 6
months have started including photo scans in the record. Is anyone else
using this technology, which I assume is to prevent fraud?
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| Maureen... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 6:47 pm |
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I know when my DH was admitted to the hospital earlier this year, our
hospital scanned his DL into their system and when I went for a clinic
appoint, they too scanned my DL. I did ask at the time and that's
what they said - it's to prevent fraud, '
Maureen
On Oct 12, 7:47 pm, Marsha <m... at (no spam) xeb.net> wrote:
[quote:eebfa922b0]Our hospital uses electronic medical records and within the past 6
months have started including photo scans in the record. Is anyone else
using this technology, which I assume is to prevent fraud?
Marsha[/quote:eebfa922b0] |
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| Kath... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:52 am |
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On Oct 12, 10:23 pm, Maureen <maureen.gal... at (no spam) comcast.net> wrote:
[quote:8aab7042ae]I know when my DH was admitted to the hospital earlier this year, our
hospital scanned his DL into their system and when I went for a clinic
appoint, they too scanned my DL. I did ask at the time and that's
what they said - it's to prevent fraud, '
Maureen
On Oct 12, 7:47 pm, Marsha <m... at (no spam) xeb.net> wrote:
Our hospital uses electronic medical records and within the past 6
months have started including photo scans in the record. Is anyone else
using this technology, which I assume is to prevent fraud?
Marsha
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The office I am transcribing for has been taking photos
of all patients for most of 2009.
Prior to that they had used a scanned-in license photo but have
replaced that as a patient presents again -- It is for fraud and
insurance identity purposes, they say.
They even have a file on every employee (125+) and have photographs of
each employee in his/her file and this is becoming more and more
common as I understand it from friends/acquaintances who
are employed in-house or at home. |
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| Anne V... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:25 am |
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"Kath" <kmitch429 at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in message
news:70fa301f-146d-4071-b853-c0b911fed266 at (no spam) g6g2000vbr.googlegroups.com...
The office I am transcribing for has been taking photos
of all patients for most of 2009.
Prior to that they had used a scanned-in license photo but have
replaced that as a patient presents again -- It is for fraud and
insurance identity purposes, they say.
They even have a file on every employee (125+) and have photographs of
each employee in his/her file and this is becoming more and more
common as I understand it from friends/acquaintances who
are employed in-house or at home.
You know, that's kind of creepy!
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| Old Doc, Old keypunch operator... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:51 pm |
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New Federal Regulations intended to stop money laundering has required
doctors who wait for insurance payments or who otherwise do not
collect their full fee at the time of service to have a plan in place
to make sure that identity fraud is not taking place.
Do you really think that the hospitals and offices and private docs
want to voluntarily take on another burden that is, given the setting,
inappropriate and useless?
On Oct 13, 1:25 pm, "Anne V" <ave... at (no spam) NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote:
[quote:bcf689e595]"Kath" <kmitch... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote in message
news:70fa301f-146d-4071-b853-c0b911fed266 at (no spam) g6g2000vbr.googlegroups.com...
The office I am transcribing for has been taking photos
of all patients for most of 2009.
Prior to that they had used a scanned-in license photo but have
replaced that as a patient presents again -- It is for fraud and
insurance identity purposes, they say.
They even have a file on every employee (125+) and have photographs of
each employee in his/her file and this is becoming more and more
common as I understand it from friends/acquaintances who
are employed in-house or at home.
You know, that's kind of creepy!
Anne[/quote:bcf689e595] |
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| Phyllis Nilsson... |
| Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:38 pm |
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My attorney did the same thing. Now the FBI is doing it to measure facial
features of those with drivers licenses in the hopes of catching criminals
(news on tv). I think it is totally inappropriate for the FBI. Don't much
care for my attorney. |
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