Author: Dissent

  Ontario’s privacy commissioner is launching an investigation into how patients’ sensitive medical records ended up being blown around a downtown Ottawa street Wednesday. Ann Cavoukian said she alerted CML Healthcare immediately after hearing that an Ottawa man had found the papers on O’Connor Street, outside a medical centre housing a CML medical imaging clinic….

Trip Jennings reports about legislation dealing with EMRs: […] But with changes in how medicine is practiced, there are also unresolved questions, in particular as they relate to privacy, says Bob Mayer, the chief information officer at the New Mexico Department of Health. And Mayer and others hope that state lawmakers will pass a law…

Erich Spivey reports: What happens inside these walls, at Dr. Anjali Pathak’s office, is supposed to remain private. But pages upon pages of un-shredded medical documents from Dr. Pathak’s Southside counseling office arrived here at First Coast News. An unsigned note reads, “Patient’s psychiatric records found in garbage.” […] All total, we found personal information…

The Associated Press reports: Rapper DMX has reached a plea deal on multiple drug possession, theft and animal cruelty charges. […] Authorities alleged that DMX gave a false name and Social Security number when being treated at a Scottsdale hospital in April. He was indicted on felony charges of theft and taking someone’s identity.

Jacob. M. Appel, a healthcare attorney, has an OpEd in the Orlando Sentinel about EMRs: […] The key element in any electronic medical system is what bioinformaticians call interoperability. This refers to the capability of repositories of EMRs (e.g. hospitals, doctors offices, nursing homes) to access and exchange data through the same system. Currently, the…

Pat Curry has a nice little overview article on medical identity theft on CreditCards.com. If you’re new to the topic, you might want to check it out.