MyFoxAustin reports: A computer-like device was stolen from Seton Northwest Hospital. Now two months later, nearly 180 patients possibly affected are just finding out. One of them came to FOX 7 for help. It was inside a locked storage area at Seton Northwest Hospital where a device was stolen. We’re told only names, dates of…
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VT: New Patient Information System Sparks Privacy Debate
Taylor Dobbs reports: … a new policy set to take effect this summer would make it possible for doctors not involved in a given patient’s care to view their file. The “global consent” policy will make it so that once a patient signs the form authorizing a release of their file, any doctor’s office connected…
Do medical scribes threaten patient privacy?
Joel Sherman, M.D. writes: Medical scribes are a burgeoning field with many institutions and practices exploring their use while the many commercial enterprises who lease out scribes are pushing for their widespread acceptance. There is no accepted definition of what scribes do or what their background or training should be. There is no mechanism for…
Iowa DHS: Medicaid records sent to wrong clinic
AP reports: Iowa officials say personal information from more than 800 Medicaid clients was accidentally mailed to the wrong health clinic. Iowa Medicaid Enterprise, a division of the state Department of Human Services, says Friday the error occurred during the mailing process. Patient listings were mailed in February. The listings include the patient’s name, phone…
It’s Insanely Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment
Add this to your MUST-READ list. It should be required reading for all hospital administrators. Kim Zetter reports: When Scott Erven was given free rein to roam through all of the medical equipment used at a large chain of Midwest health care facilities, he knew he would find security problems–but he wasn’t prepared for just…
A few more breaches added to HHS's public breach tool
HHS recently started changing their breach tool. Unfortunately, at times they seem to add breaches before their more recent updates, and we may not notice they’ve been added if we’re used to starting at where we left off in their list. Today, I discovered a few more breaches they had added: Kmart reported 16,446 were…