Healthcare IT News has this story: Last week, patient privacy advocate Deborah Peel, MD, wrote a letter to Healthcare IT News attacking Perlegen Sciences’ plans to work with an EMR vendor to use patient data for genetics research. In a new letter, Perlegen strikes back at Peel. To the editor, Healthcare IT News: We are…
Author: Dissent
Governor Rendell Signs Executive Order Implementing Information Technology Initiative From Prescription for Pennsylvania
A press release from Governor Rendell’s office, seen at SunHerald.com: Governor Edward G. Rendell announced today that he has signed an executive order creating the Pennsylvania Health Information Exchange, which is a framework that will give health care providers improved access to clinical data and lead to safer and more efficient patient-centered care. The…
Leukemia Credit bureau settles Los Gatos cancer survivor's suit
Lisa Fernandez writes in the Mercury News: It’s mind-numbing what Eric Drew has been through. The former Los Gatos High School quarterback and runway model was diagnosed with leukemia seven years ago. A hospital lab technician stole his credit cards before he went into surgery. After that, credit card companies first blanketed him with cards…
Hewlett employee accused of stealing credit card information
Jeff Lipton reports in Herald Community Newspapers: A 19-year-old cashier at a Hewlett (NY) pharmacy was arrested last week and charged with several counts of identity theft after she allegedly used a device to copy credit card information from customers which was then used to make more than $8,000 in illegal purchases, investigators said. The…
Ca: Kids' data exposed
Marc Kilching of Sun Media reports: Documents containing detailed information on children who participated in a city-funded summer program were carelessly left out in the open at a public housing apartment building where a man was recently charged with possession of child pornography. George Pappas, director of the Glamorgan Resident’s Association, was running one of…
Was LabCorp too casual when it suffered a breach?
As reported in the previous news story, two women discovered “thousands” of LabCorp patients’ records strewn all over a public road. A LabCorp spokesperson suggested that the records might be pre-1993 records which wouldn’t contain Social Security numbers, but of course, that totally misses the point about privacy, which is more than just the issue…