Ed Friedrich reports from Washington: The Evergreen Freedom Foundation is suing the state Department of Transportation to get the results of drug and alcohol tests that a ferry crew took after their boat hit Seattle’s Colman Dock last summer. The libertarian think tank based in Olympia believes the public should be able to view documents…
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Lost CD spurs hunt by NYS Department of Health
Rick Karlin reports from New York: A compact disc containing the names of 328,000 New Yorkers with developmental and other health issues has been missing for almost a month, prompting a massive desk-by-desk search at the state Department of Health’s Corning Tower headquarters. “We have not been able to locate within our Early Intervention program…
How Apple and Opera Mini just exposed your Medical Records to the world
Jared Houck dropped me a note to point me to this article he wrote pointing out a potential security risk when using Apple and Opera Mini: …. We’re quite sure that the iPhone and iPad see some use in the health care trenches. So, we’re gonna go out on a limb here to suggest that…
[CORRECTED] HHS proposes changes in system to implement HITECH provisions
A notice in the Federal Register this week has understandably generated a lot of comment in the health IT community. Here’s the summary from the notice: SUMMARY: In accordance with the Privacy Act, we are proposing to modify or alter an existing SOR, “Program Information Management System (PIMS),” System No. 09-90-0052, published at 67 FR…
(update) 9-year-old didn’t hack Blackboard system
Although it made for an interesting story, it seems that the recent incident in Virginia, reported here, was not a hack. The kid simply found and used a teacher’s password. Robert McMillan has the corrected story here.
Attorney General Reaches Settlement with Certegy Check Services over Data Breach
Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced a settlement with a financial services company over allegations the company did not provide adequate data security for consumer records. Certegy Check Services, Inc., a St. Petersburg-based company, experienced a massive data breach which exposed personal identification information from approximately 5.9 million consumer files. Under the settlement, the company…