Category: Health Data

Clark Kauffman has an article in the Des Moines Register about medical snooping and HIPAA violations in Iowa that makes for an interesting, if unsurprising, read: When Jill went to her doctor two years ago for an operation on her uterus, she didn’t expect that details of her problem would later appear in the hometown…

Chris Shaw reports: Thousands of documents loaded with social security numbers and other personal information were thrown out Friday, left in dumpsters that anyone could get to. […] The documents listed dates of birth, addresses and even medical records in almost every file. No one was at the law office Friday afternoon where the case…

AFP reports that: NHS Lanarkshire said £850,789 had been spent on security at Law Hospital near Carluke in Lanarkshire since it closed in 2001. The board launched an investigation last month after X-rays and other paperwork were found at the site.

The Australian Privacy Commissioner, Karen Curtis, has called for legislation for the proposed national Individual Electronic Health Records (IEHR) system. “The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) has identified some valuable privacy considerations for the proposed IEHR system,” said Ms Curtis. “The suggestion that individuals should be able to opt-in to an IEHR system is welcome,…

Hundreds of people in Brevard County found out Thursday if their personal information was stolen. Names, social security numbers and even personal medical information of more than 500 patients at Wuesthoff Medical Center were posted on the internet. […] Wuestoff Staff members believe their pre-registration website for patients may have been hacked into. More –…

CMS is developing a pilot program to test options for beneficiaries to be able to maintain their health records electronically. Under this pilot in Arizona and Utah, a beneficiary may choose one of the selected commercial PHR tools, and Medicare will transfer up to two years of the individual’s claims data into the individual’s PHR….