Author: Dissent

Patrick Howington reports: Dr. Paul Hollern, who once ran a chiropractor-training empire from Louisville, was sentenced yesterday to 12 months of probation for videotaping patients without their knowledge. Advertisement Hollern, 45, must serve six months of that time on home incarceration, but he is allowed to leave home to work. […] The jury could not…

Jeff Ducharme of the Telegraph-Journal reports on what may be another file-sharing compromise — this one in St. John’s, Canada: The province’s ombudsman and privacy commissioner, Bernard Richard, said he’s looking into the loss of personal information from the Loch Lomond Villa. On Monday, Loch Lomond Villa CEO Cindy Donovan confirmed that personal data from…

Dave Hansen of AMNews reports: Medicare has started a yearlong pilot project in South Carolina testing online personal health records as a way to enable beneficiaries to get more involved in their care and better manage their conditions. Patients control their records and decide who has access to them — from doctors to family members….

Christopher Sleight and Hayley Rothwell of BBC in Scotland report: Confidential patient information has been left lying in an abandoned hospital in Lanarkshire, BBC Scotland can reveal. X-rays marked with patients’ names, photographs and other paperwork were found scattered at Law Hospital in Carluke, which closed in 2001. The discovery comes weeks after it emerged…

Andrew Noyes of Congress Daily reports: House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders hope to vote on legislation before the August recess that would create a national system of electronic medical records, Energy and Commerce ranking member Joe Barton said today. He noted members working on changes to the bill, which passed a key subcommittee last…

Dan Rozek reports: Jonah Greenthal said he hacked into the computer system at New Trier High School to check his class rank, but the 18-year-old senior found much more than that. Greenthal managed to tap into confidential school data that included teacher salaries, medical records and grade histories for students who had graduated as long…