According to a news release from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, an informational letter regarding the opening of the Minneapolis VA Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) in Shakopee was recently mailed to 500 veterans with the name and address of a different veteran inadvertently duplexed, or printed, onto the back side of the letter. The Minneapolis VA…
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Dutch health boards to ditch intimate questions to parents, teenagers
DutchNews.nl reports: Local health boards are to revise the list of often personal questions they ask parents about their children because many are considered ‘unwanted interference’, the Volkskrant reports on Wednesday. Parents will no longer be asked about their income, psychiatric well-being or how often their children clean their teeth following numerous complaints, the paper states….
Guantánamo nurse refuses to force-feed prisoners
This may seem a tad off-topic for this blog, but I could not less this go unnoticed: AP reports: A US navy nurse has refused to force-feed prisoners who are on an extended hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay, the first protest of its kind at the detention centre, a rights lawyer and US official has said….
Baltimore VA Benefits Office Reorganizing After Alleged Privacy Breach
Pat Warren reports: The Baltimore Regional Benefit Office is reorganizing after what appears to be a privacy breach. A Baltimore employee of the benefits division was found with thousands of claims documents stacked in his office. “Any time that you’re evaluating the problems, you’re going to find other issues and other problems. We need management…
AU: Medical centre in Narre Warren South breached privacy laws by keeping files in shed
Mex Cooper reports: A medical centre that kept sensitive health records of nearly 1000 patients in a garden shed on a disused property in Melbourne’s south-east has been reprimanded for breaching privacy laws. Boxes of records containing the personal details of patients were discovered at the Narre Warren South site when the shed at the…
TX: Former hospital employee indicted for criminal HIPAA violations
HIPAA criminal charges are still relatively uncommon, and frankly, I’m not sure why they’re not charged more often in cases of theft of patient information for tax refund fraud. I assume federal prosecutors know something that I don’t, though. In any event, here’s a case where a HIPAA criminal charge was filed: TYLER, Texas —…