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Medical transcriber holds records hostage

A medical transcriber in Pakistan threatens to release medical records unless they are paid $500.00.

Slashdot reports on an article in the San Francisco Chronicle by David Lazarus. Of possible interest to EMR developers are comments in Slashdot. They concern software that uploads information to third parties (for a price) as well as one gentleman that always reviews his own transcriptions when he visits the doctor.