Karen Dearne reports: Patients will have limited control of their medical information, as a leaked document shows consumer access will be confined to a portal. While Health Minister Nicola Roxon said consumers would “truly control” their personal electronic health records at her e-health forum last week, attendees did not see a draft concept of operations,…
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Concerns raised over federal workers' health care database
Kaiser Health News reports: An Office of Personnel Management plan to launch a comprehensive database of federal workers’ health care records has raised the ire of some privacy advocates, employee unions and consumer groups. OPM is organizing a research database of insurance claims filed by the eight million workers and dependents enrolled in the Federal…
PA: Woodland Hills website lists some student test scores in error
A superintendent’s report posted on the Internet — intended to help Woodland Hills school board members decide whether to stop using an alternative school — exposed for more than a week the confidential state test scores of individual students. Woodland Hills Superintendent Walter Calinger said the portion of his report containing the names and performance…
Workers’ health information off-limits, except when it’s not
Diane Stafford writes: Do you have to take a pre-offer or post-offer medical exam or a fitness-for-duty test? Are you asking for family leave to care for your mother because she’s dying of breast cancer? Did you write on your Facebook page about your family history of heart attacks? Are there questions about your family’s…
OK: Hundreds of personal documents found in dumpster
A Tulsa business finds hundreds of documents in its dumpster. […] The documents contained all sorts of personal information, dating as far back as 2004 and as early as 2009. Probst managed to save 96 of them before sanitation workers came by and emptied the dumpster. “Blank checks, social security cards, id’s, bank statements, telephone…
MD woman pleads guilty in tax fraud scheme that misused children’s identity information
Twanna Dorothea Campbell, aka “Twanna D. Gaines,” “ Twanna Campbell-Moore,” and “Mrs. T,” age 32, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty this week to conspiracy to file false tax returns and aggravated identity theft. According to her plea agreement, Campbell and another individual owned a tax preparation business that operated under various names, including Phoenix Tax World,…