Baylee Pulliam reports: Floyd Memorial Hospital hopes a tiny, glowing blue box could help improve patient care and prevent medical identity theft. The box is part of the hospital’s new partnership with technology company CrossChx, which uses unique points of patients’ fingerprints to generate a code linking them to their medical information. Read more on The…
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U.S. Bank ordered to pay $48 million in restitution to theft-protection customers
Martin Moylan reports: Two federal regulatory agencies have fined U.S. Bank $9 million and ordered the company to pay $48 million in restitution to customers unfairly billed for identity theft protection. The action affects more than 420,000 consumers who signed up for theft protection from 2003 to 2012. The Office of the Comptroller of the…
Hurt introduces ACA privacy bill
Elizabeth O’Roark, Savannah Simpson, and Will Marshall report: Reps. Robert Hurt, R-Charlottesville, and John Barrow, D-Ga., introduced a bill Monday which would allow Healthcare.gov users to remove their permanent profile from the website to safeguard their privacy. H.R. 5610, also known as the Healthcare Consumer Privacy Act, on Monday. Read more on The Cavalier Daily.
NZ: Call for extra patient privacy protection
Radio New Zealand reports: The Privacy Commissioner is warning the storage of millions of New Zealand’s health records online puts them at risk of cyber attacks and snooping. John Edwards released a new report on three electronic shared care record systems, that said while they were appropriately mitigating privacy risks, continued attention to privacy was…
LU: Pirate Party chief on trial for data leak
From wort.lu: President of the Luxembourg Pirate Party Sven Clement on Wednesday goes on trial for data theft and violation of data traffic laws, after stealing the password to a medical database in 2012. The incident dates back to January 2012, when a hacker gained access to over 48,000 medical files on licenced athletes in…
KY: Owensboro medical practice reports patient data stolen by former employees
T.J. Parker reports: An Owensboro medical group is investigating a data breach after learning that former employees allegedly stole information from about 3,000 patients. Officials say they’re doing everything they can to protect their patients. Director of Research for Owensboro Medical Practice, Timothy Hillard, says he found out former employees of Doctor Vora allegedly stole…