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Maintenance note

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Dissent

I’ve been informed that tonight (Thursday), my web host will be performing a server update, and that my sites may be unavailable at some point. They anticipate the outage to be 15-30 minutes. Based on past experiences, if I’m not back online by tomorrow noon, send coffee….  

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ACLU In Court Today: Defending Medical Records from Warrantless Search

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Dissent

Nathan Freed Wessler of the ACLU writes: I will be in federal district court in Oregon today for oral argument in the ACLU’s challenge to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s practice of obtaining Oregon patients’ confidential prescription records without a warrant. We represent patients and a doctor whose prescriptions are tracked in the Oregon Prescription Drug Monitoring Program…

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Update: Former Virginia Beach General Hospital nurse's aide sentenced for using patients’ personal info to commit tax fraud

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Dissent

Doris Taylor reports: A former nurse aide for Sentara’s Virginia Beach General Hospital was sentenced to 81 months in prison for using patients’ personal information to submit fraudulent federal tax returns with the IRS. They say 36-year-old Emmanuel Effiong and another aide, Festus Ighalo are originally from Nigeria and are now U.S. citizens. Officials say the two aides…

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Edgepark Medical Supplies notifies patients after malware may have compromised their personal information

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Dissent

Edgepark Medical Supplies in Ohio (RGH Enterprises) is notifying some patients that their personal information, including full credit card number in approximately 126 cases, may have been acquired in March 2013 due to a malware infection that evaded detection by their anti-virus software until December 2013. Upon discovery, the malware was removed and patients’ passwords…

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HHS Issues Proposed Rule on HIPAA and Firearm Background Check Reporting

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Dissent

Rachel Grunberger and Anna Kraus write: On January 7, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a notice of proposed rulemaking to modify the HIPAA Privacy Rule to expressly allow certain disclosures to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). As we previously reported, this was one of the executive actions…

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How our private medical data gets collected and sold

Posted on January 5, 2014 by Dissent

Frances Stotter effectively makes some points about your medical privacy – or lack thereof: Last year, I saw doctors more than usual. One major problem has been my back. So, I got the spinal injections in June. Soon, the ads flooded in, through every medium, TV, Internet, and US mail. They were, and still are,…

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