This says it all for faxes in a bull pen type area as anyone can pick up a paper fax and have access to information that is confidential in nature. At least with email, you need a device to access the information...BD
A UnitedHealth Group subsidiary agreed to stop a nationwide pilot program it was using to update practice information after physicians in New York became concerned about the possibility that their personal information could end up in the wrong hands.
Regina McNally, vice president for the division of sociomedical economics for the Medical Society of the State of New York, said several physicians contacted the medical society during the week of April 16 after they received a fax from Ingenix, a wholly owned United subsidiary that focuses on health care information technology and analysis.
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