Associated Press reports: The state official overseeing Vermont’s new online insurance marketplace says there has been a second “privacy incident” after there was a mix-up of information involving two people with the same first and last names. Read more on Bennington Banner.
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Assessing Bitcoin’s benefits, security risks in healthcare
Patrick Ouellette writes: Because of the prevalence of medical identity fraud in the healthcare industry, healthcare providers are beginning to think outside of the box as to how to keep their patients’ data private. San Francisco physician Paul Abramson has made headlines of late for allowing patients to pay for services using Bitcoin, a decentralized…
Facebook rolls out a Donate Now button to help charities; will store your credit card info
The headline says it all. What could possibly go wrong, right? Read more on Tech2.
Colorado Health & Wellness notifies patients after doctor who left practice took their contact information with him
There were a number of breaches added to HHS’s breach tool today that were news to me. Here’s another: Colorado Health & Wellness reported an incident affecting 651 patients that occurred on September 4. HHS’s log codes the incident as “Theft, Unauthorized Access/Disclosure” involving EMRs. Clear as mud, right? I could not locate any media…
N.M. Case Tests How Far CEs Must Go to Meet the Demands of Law Enforcement
AIS Health has an article on a troubling case previously discussed on this blog involving two Gila Medical Center physicians who cooperated with police requests for increasingly invasive body searches of a man suspected of hiding drugs in his body. The article begins: Hospital privacy officers on the job long enough have their share of…
Commentary: Shooting the Messenger is Not an Effective Incident Response Strategy (updated)
A PHIprivacy.net commentary. In another post this morning, I described a very worrisome breach involving Lanap & Dental Implants of Pennsylvania. Our awareness of that breach is due to one person’s persistent efforts to shine some light on it. He responsibly contacted the dental practice over a year ago to alert them when he discovered…