CBC News reports: The Vitalité Health Network is informing some patients their personal medical records were accessed without authorization. The privacy breach was discovered a year ago. A doctor with the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre gained unauthorized access to the files using two hospital computers between Sept. 6, 2010 and Nov. 30, 2012, the letter signed by…
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KS: Doctor's X-ray postings unsettling
Tim Carpenter reports: U.S. Senate candidate Milton Wolf posted a collection of gruesome X-ray images of gunshot fatalities and medical injuries to his Facebook page and participated in online commentary layered with macabre jokes and descriptions of carnage. Wolf, a Johnson County radiologist anchoring a campaign for the Republican nomination with calls for federal heath…
NZ: Nurse privacy invasion charge dismissed
Jeremy Olds reports: A nurse who followed the request of a mentally-unstable early childhood teacher and accessed her medical record has been exonerated after the woman complained about an invasion of privacy. The nurse, who has name suppression, was found by the Human Rights Review Tribunal not to have breached the Health Information Privacy Code…
Hospital records sold to insurance companies – in breach of the Data Protection Act?
After yesterday’s blockbuster revelation by the Telegraph, Jon Baines writes: I’ve asked the ICO to assess whether the sale of millions of health records to insurance companies so that they could “refine” their premiums was complaint with the law Read more on Information Rights and Wrongs.
UK: Hospital records of all NHS patients sold to insurers
If this is true, then heads need to roll. And the sooner, the better. Laura Donnelly reports: The medical records of every NHS hospital patient in the country have been sold for insurance purposes, The Telegraph can reveal. The disclosure comes days after controversial plans to extract patient data from GP files were put on…
'Hacking' may reveal personal health risks
Well, at least the editor put ‘hacking’ in quotes as this really has nothing to do with hacking and more to do with developing algorithms that may enable re-identification or identification of individuals from genetic databases when the information is combined with other publicly available databases or information. Sarah Knapton reports on the implications of…