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Author: Dissent

Suit alleges patient confidentiality breach

Posted on September 6, 2009 by Dissent

Jeff Tucker reports: A Pueblo West man has filed a lawsuit against the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center on behalf of his daughter, who sought treatment at the university hospital in Denver and was sent to a New Mexico prison for her trouble. Kimberly K. Lusardi, 36, is serving an eight-year sentence in New…

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UK: Probe after civil servant details given out with FOI

Posted on September 5, 2009 by Dissent

The Scottish government is under investigation by the UK information tsar after it mistakenly provided confidential details about civil servants to the Sunday Herald. Internal documents with individual computer ID and phone numbers were accidentally included in papers about energy policy released last week after a freedom of information request. The government has been accused…

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Case in point

Posted on September 5, 2009 by Dissent

Some people — who shall go nameless for now — call some of us “privacy nuts” as if it’s a bad thing. But anyone who works in the field of mental health, as I do, may be understandably seriously concerned about privacy and security issues.  I received a phone call this week that’s a case…

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Digital Direct reports breach

Posted on September 5, 2009 by Dissent

Chris Cooper of Bloomberg.com reports that Digital Direct, Inc., a unit of Mistubishi Corp., had a breach of their e-commerce web site that resulted in the compromise of 52,000 customers’ credit card numbers. According to Cooper, the breach, which reportedly originated overseas (from them), was first brought to Digital Direct’s attention by credit card companies…

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Rap over loss of sensitive data

Posted on September 5, 2009 by Dissent

Express and Star in the UK reports: A memory stick with details of vulnerable children and their families was lost by a Sandwell Council worker on the way home, it emerged today. The incident sparked an investigation by the Information Commissioner and the council has found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act….

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Pharmacies seek Privacy/Security Changes

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Dissent

Joseph Goedert reports on Health Data Management: The National Community Pharmacists Association is seeking changes in certain provisions of the HIPAA privacy and security rules that were expanded by the HITECH Act within the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. In a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, the…

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