Category: Health Data

Terry, Nicolas P. and Francis, Leslie P.,  Ensuring the Privacy and Confidentiality of Electronic Health Records (October 12, 2007). University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2007, pp. 681-735, 2007 Full-text article available for free download from SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=886904 Abstract: The federal government is fast-tracking a nationally based interoperable health records system. What may at first…

A computer containing information for at least 350 HIV patients was stolen over Labor Day weekend, Multnomah County officials said Thursday. An employee showed up to open the HIV patient center Tuesday morning and realized a burglary had occurred. The computer contained the names of about 350 to 400 HIV patients, authorities said. Multnomah County…

Heath Urie reports: Paperwork containing the names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and other personal information of more than 200 patients at Boulder Community Hospital have been stolen, according to Boulder police. Police spokeswoman Sarah Huntley said the forms taken were copies of patient-intake forms of 207 people who visited the Occupational Health and Therapy…

As fears over privacy prompt genetic databases in the United States and Britain to close public access to some of their data, scientists working in the field are complaining that the moves are premature and will impede research . Read more in Nature

Doctors are warning patient data is at risk after a snapshot poll of colleagues showed lapses in security. Two unnamed doctors surveyed their colleagues at a top London hospital and found three quarters carried unsecured memory sticks with confidential data. Read more – BBC

It was a shocking discovery in an abandoned storage unit. Thousands of medical charts, all listed to Southwest Medical. Larry Coldmire bought the contents of the storage unit for just $25 dollars in an auction. He had hoped to find treasures that he could turn into a profit, but what was there instead is identity…