Author: Dissent

Raf Sanchez reports in Nouse: The University Counselling Service [at York University] has admitted a “serious breach of trust” after releasing the email addresses of over three hundred students and staff taking counselling. The addresses were accidentally put in the cc field of an email sent out on February 22 to 344 people on the…

Seen at The Health Care Blog: I’m a card carrying member of the ACLU. I oppose the Patriot Act. And I absolutely oppose the current Administration’s decision to ignore the FISA law that already bends over backwards to help the government spy on Americans whom it suspects of criminal activity. I’m also appalled when I…

Florence Olsen writes on FCW: Federal agencies increasingly rely on information from commercial data brokers to detect and investigate fraud, verify people’s identities and determine eligibility for benefits. However, agencies often do not exercise the same privacy precautions with that data as they do with information they collect themselves, and some lawmakers and privacy advocates…

This presentation by Peter Swire at the 15th National HIPAA Summit is available online for free viewing. Also available on the site is a presentation by Linda Sanches, “Enforcement and Policy Challenges in Health Information Privacy.” Presentations from the 14th National HIPAA Summit are listed on the Resources page of this site.

From a press release issued today: Jerry Flanagan, Health Care Policy Director, Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights will speak out against proposed legislation that would create a loophole in existing law which bars the sharing of private medical information without a patient’s consent. The bill, SB 1096 (Calderon), does so by deeming what amounts…

Ruth Hill of The Dominion Post reports: Concerns about the privacy of women seeking abortions stopped clinicians alerting authorities to botched sterilisations at Wanganui Hospital, MPs have been told. Whanganui District Health Board chief executive Memo Musa told Parliament’s health select committee yesterday that the board had not followed proper procedures when appointing Czech-trained surgeon…