Category: Health Data

One of the values I find in reading a lot online is that I’ll read something that makes me realize a gap in my own understanding of HIPAA or other issues.  In this case,  some forum comments and posts made by a doctor raised questions in my mind about whether  HIPAA-covered entities fall afoul of…

Tim Naumetz reports: The federal government appears ready to settle a $400,000 lawsuit by veterans advocate Sean Bruyea after Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart’s ruling that the Veterans Affairs Department contravened the Privacy Act by circulating his confidential personal information and medical files. Mr. Bruyea’s lawyer would say only that following a lengthy delay in a…

Back in April 2008, a number of students at U.C. Irvine became victims in a fraudulent tax return scheme after an employee at United Healthcare Services misused their information to file fraudulent returns. Over 1,000 graduate students who were enrolled in the university’s health insurance program were affected. In browsing one of my favorite blogs…

I am not litigation-happy, but I am really glad to read this news from The Associated Press: The Atlanta man who was thrust into the center of a 2007 international tuberculosis scare won a major legal victory Friday when a federal appeals court allowed his lawsuit to move forward claiming health officials publicized his condition…

Johns Hopkins University has notified the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services of a breach involving 692 of  its Applied Physics Laboratory employees’ dependents.  Because HHS’s breach logs don’t provide a lot of detail, I contacted JHU for additional information on the incident.  As I have come to expect from them, they promptly responded with full…