LAW
Cyber crimes TMLT has physicians covered
“Electronic PHI is
being stored on more portable devices than ever before.”
BY KARA NUZBACK One shipping mistake nearly cost Andrew Brooker, MD, his profes- sional reputation and hefty attorney fees. Last April, his Pennsylvania billing service asked him to mail 22,000 patients’ electronic health records (EHRs) because the documents were too extensive to send electronically. Dr. Brooker downloaded the patient information onto a password-protected disk and shipped it to Pennsylvania. When the billing company received the disk, it down- loaded the information, then shipped the disk to a local information technology (IT) group. But the disk ended up at the wrong address, never to be recovered, says Dr. Brooker, an Amarillo orthopedic surgeon. “You can have the best protection in the world,” he said. “But somebody else drops the ball, and it all comes back to you.” Immediately, he contacted the Texas Medical Liability Trust (TMLT) and discov-
ered cyber liability coverage is part of his insurance policy. TMLT paid a lawyer to obtain the information contained on the lost disk from
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