Karen Goldberg Goff’s piece in today’s Washington Times contains quotes from a number of privacy organizations and professionals in health care about the security issues, HIPAA, and privacy of records, such as: “There is good and bad about electronic records,” says Robert Gellman, a District-based privacy consultant. “There is a lot of promise about medicine…
Author: Dissent
Do People Have a Reasonable Expectation of Privacy in Abandoned DNA?
Information privacy lawyer Dan Solove has a commentary on the recent news article in the New York Times, “Lawyers Fight DNA Samples Gained on Sly,” in which he writes: […] DNA is sensitive information in many people’s books, but it is also very hard to keep contained. We leave traces of DNA everywhere we go…
UCLA Health System statement on patient confidentiality
Statement issued by UCLA Health System, April 6: UCLA Health System considers patient confidentiality a critical part of our mission of providing the highest level of teaching, research and patient care. Our concern for our patients is absolute, and we regret any breach of patient confidentiality. After news stories first appeared in May 2007 about…
NZ: GPs fear for patient privacy
Hayden Donnell of the North Shore Times reports: An online medical database has North Shore GPs worried for their patients’ privacy. They are hitting out at the system, called TestSafe, saying it could be used to put patient medical records into the wrong hands. Milford doctor John Russell says he has seen two cases where…
Pointer: WellPoint exposes members' personal info, Rx records on the web
News story here. Commentary here.
Ca: Health files discarded
Chris Purdy, Saskatchewan News Network; and Canwest News Service report: For the second time in less than a month, boxes of abandoned patient health files have been discovered in vacant office space. At least 2,000 records were found last week in the Hammond Building in Moose Jaw. About six boxes of files were sitting in…