Joel Rubin reports: The Los Angeles Police Commission violated its own strict privacy policy — and perhaps state law — on Friday, releasing a confidential report on the Internet that contained the names of hundreds of officers accused of racial profiling and other misconduct. The blunder, which police officials attributed to a clerical error, marks…
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Consumer Advocate’s View of HIT in Stimulus Bill
Josh Seidman reports: The following is a guest post from Eva Powell, MSW, CPHQ, Diretor, HIT Project, National Partnership for Women & Families. In light of all the discussion about the Economic Recovery Plan and the privacy provisions in the HIT Title, I thought it might be helpful to provide a consumer advocate’s view. The…
Google, IBM team to take health records from PDA to e-health database
Sharon Gaudin reports: Google Inc., IBM and the Continua Health Alliance this week unveiled jointly developed software designed to stream patient information from a doctor’s mobile device to online data stores. The two tech giants worked with the Beaverton, Ore.-based health care provider to extend the value of Google‘s Google Health service and other online…
UnitedHealth Group To Issue Machine-Readable Patient ID Cards
This week, UnitedHealth Group announced that it will issue by the end of 2009 nearly 25 million machine-readable patient identification cards, Modern Healthcare reports. The patient ID cards will provide patient benefit-eligibility information, access to patients’ personal health records and real-time claim adjudication. The cards will comply with national standards established by the federal Workgroup…
WI: DOC Electric employees’ personal data auctioned off
The Wisconsin Office of Privacy Protection has posted notice of a breach that occurred on January 15, 2009 when DOC Electric assets were auctioned off by M&I Bank and a local auction house. Apparently the computers and file cabinets contained personal information on DOC Electric employees who were employed from the start of the business…
Kohl’s Cashier Accused Of Customer Credit Card Fraud
Kohl’s is reimbursing two customers after learning an employee illegally used customer credit cards to buy gift cards. Source – CFNews