THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH MUST EXTEND TO THE BUSINESS OFFICE: CONFRONTING AND RESOLVING THE ETHICAL DILEMMA OF OFF-SHORING MEDICAL RECORDS.
by Elizabeth Burke, Patient Privacy Advocate In the winter of 2019, 45,000 patients of Rush System Health in Chicago and 6,300 patients of Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts were informed of an incident in which their private medical data was exposed in identical security breaches. The two hospital systems and Miramed, the company who handles […]