WPF has urged HHS to clarify the intersection between HIPAA compliance and harms resulting from medical identity theft in its response to the Request for Information from the Office of Civil Rig...
WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will testify before the full committee of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) regarding emerging privacy concerns in the healthcare envi...
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has produced a set of cybersecurity resources for healthcare provider organizations from small to large. So far, HHS has published four docume...
WPF has urged the CFPB to continue to maintain its consumer complaint database and make complaints available to the public. The CFPB is considering multiple potential changes to its consumer comp...
This new WPF report finds that medical identity theft is still a crime that causes great harms to its victims, and that it is growing overall in the United States; however, there’s a catch. The...
https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2017/12/new-report-the-geography-of-medical-identity-theft/
This data visualization maps new patterns of medical identity theft hot spots and activity in the US. The map shows how medical identity theft-related complaints have grown over time, and where t...
Executive Director Pam Dixon will be speaking this Friday at the National Association of Healthcare Journalists about electronic records, and the risk of medical identity theft and other risks th...
Key Consumer Tips for Anthem Breach Victims: Be alert for the key areas of attack post-breach, including Medical ID theft Victims of the Anthem data breach should be aware of three potential ...
Medical identity theft happens when another person uses your identity to acquire medical goods or services. The problem is that when this occurs, the imposter's medical treatment gets put into yo...
June 07, 2013 Washington, D. C. — Pam Dixon testified at a US Federal Trade Commission workshop event regarding the challenges seniors and their caregivers have in detecting, preventing, and ha...
https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2013/06/news-release-senior-id-theft-is-increasing/