Category: Health Data

Joseph Goedert asks some great questions and raises some excellent points about HHS OCR’s handling of the BCBS of Tennessee breach. Do read his commentary.

Speaking of stolen x-rays, here’s another case in the news this week. Andrew Seymour reports from Canada: A Toronto man stopped by police in a U-Haul truck filled with nearly 54,000 stolen X-rays was after the silver in the medical imaging scans, and not the personal information printed on them, a prosecutor told a judge…

Stealing old x-rays for the silver is still a problem.  Keith Clines reports that in this case, the x-rays  contained only the patient’s name, date of birth and medical record number for somewhere between 125 and 175 patients.  

This notice was posted today on Georgia Health Science University’s web site, although I don’t see a link to it from their home page: Georgia Health Sciences University has notified 513 patients about the theft of a laptop computer that may have contained some of their personal information. On Jan. 18, a nurse practitioner who works…

Tunomukwathi Asino reports on what could be a very serious data breach: The State on Tuesday succeeded in having the bail hearing in the case in which a Telecom sales executive stands accused of raping three of his biological daughters, between 1997 and 2012, postponed to Friday. The reason for the postponement was because documents…

I’ve blogged about the issue of  medical privacy rights of the dead a number of times over the past few  years, including a case in Nebraska, another case in Connecticut, and even the rights of mummies.  It’s a complex issue because depending on how far back one goes and what one is researching, one might…