Aaron Falk writes in the Deseret Morning News: Why Louis Mezzoni walked into Central Florida Regional Hospital in May 2006 is, frankly, none of your business. His medical records — as are nearly all medical records in the U.S. — are private, guarded heavily by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. When, at 77,…
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Nassau officials say privacy laws hinder probes
Erik German writes in Newsday: More than 10 days have passed since police say three New Cassel children were killed by their troubled mother, and Nassau County officials say they still don’t have what they need to fully investigate. “Right now I’m sitting here, there are three kids dead and I don’t have full information…
U.S. seeks input on national biobank
Alan Bavley of McClatchy Newspapers writes: In large upright freezers, researchers at St. Luke’s Hospital are stashing tens of thousands of tiny tubes that will hold blood samples of up to 2,000 people. It’s a major project to study patients’ medical charts and look for the genes and blood proteins that put people with diabetes…
Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Western NY loses laptop; 40,000 customers notified
Matt Pitts of WGRZ-TV writes: Thousands of Blue Cross-Blue Shield customers are being notified by mail that their identity could potentially be compromised. A viewer called 2 On Your Side to tell us her son received a letter from the company telling him his information is on a company laptop computer that’s missing. Blue Cross-Blue…
245 computers stolen from 19 universities in Japan
The Yomiuri Shimbun reports: […] The Metropolitan Police Department began investigating the case after computers were stolen from the science and engineering departments of prestigious universities in Tokyo, including Tokyo and Waseda universities. The MPD then learned that a total of 245 computers had been stolen from 19 universities since September 2006. In Tokyo, 16…
Health IT execs mull fixes on health record privacy
Maureen McKinney writes in Government Health IT: Health information technology executives this week called for the development and dissemination of a more lucid set of policies on consumer access to health records in order to allay public fears that using a personal health record would put their health privacy at risk. In a Web conference…