MetLife records, including health data, found in trash
The Illinois Dept. of Insurance has been working with insurance company MetLife to notify dozens of people whose records were found disposed of behind a former MetLife office near Rockford, Ill., a few months ago.
A man searching for scrap metal discovered the records in January and notified authorities. Records for 171 people were found in a trash bin. Documents included insurance applications with health data and other identifying information, said department spokesman Louis Pukelis.
MetLife has offered to pay for 12 months of credit monitoring for anyone whose records were involved.
Insurance department officials did not issue any fines in connection with the incident, Pukelis said.
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Epocrates enters EMR market
The decision support and drug reference tool developer Epocrates announced at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society annual meeting on March 1 that it is entering the electronic medical records market.
The company said a mobile and Web-based system is in development and will be released later this year.
Epocrates has more than 900,000 U.S. users of its mobile-device tools.
The print version of this content appeared in the March 22, 2010 issue of American Medical News.
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