Category: Health Data

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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…

The Associated Press is reporting that California first lady Maria Shriver is among 32 celebrity patients who had their confidential medical records accessed by unauthorized personnel at UCLA Medical Center. According to their report, the same employee who breached actress Farrah Fawcett’s records also breached the privacy of other high-profile or celebrity patients by snooping…

This is a follow-up to a story mentioned here: WEST Australian police are investigating claims by a Perth journalist that he was able to access private details of hospital patients from old computers found dumped outside a hospital. A Sunday Times journalist today reported that private details, including the names and addresses of patients, were…

The Swedish government has launched its e-health initiative, as described on the e-Health Europe site. The national strategy is described in this 36-page report [pdf]. With respect to security, the report says: Increased use of e-Health must be combined with effective security measures designed to ensure that highly sensitive confidential information relating to individual patients…

I’ve previously linked to an OpEd about a proposed law in Minnesota that would allow collection of every newborn’s DNA despite Minnesota’s genetic privacy law and that would give the government ownership and genetic research rights. Today I saw the following on YouTube. It’s a video of Twila Brase, president of Citizens’ Council on Health…