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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…

The headline says it all. What could possibly go wrong, right? Read more on Tech2.

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…

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…

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…

Associated Press reports that the University of Connecticut has disclosed an insider breach. According to their report, an employee at the UConn Health Center inappropriately accessed personal information in the medical records of 164 patients. The school reportedly became aware of the privacy breach on Nov. 4, and has sent letters to all the affected patients. Spokesperson…