This must be our week to report on healthcare providers who jeopardize their professional licenses by engaging in conduct resulting in privacy breaches. Earlier this week, PHIprivacy.net reported on the suspension of psychologist Dr. Sunil Kakar’s license. Today’s story is a follow-up to the case of a Solon, Ohio dentist who was charged with misusing…
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Article: Routes for breaching and protecting genetic privacy
A draft version of an article by Yaniv Erlich and Arvind Narayanan, “Routes for breaching and protecting genetic privacy,” has been uploaded by the authors to Dropbox, where you can download and read it. From the paper: Abstract: We are entering the era of ubiquitous genetic information for research, clinical care, and personal curiosity. Sharing these datasets is…
Doctors' group: Proposed Pennsylvania bill pushes medical privacy boundaries
Richard Gazarik reports: A bill pending in Harrisburg gives law enforcement agencies too much access to confidential medical information on patients and physicians who may be overprescribing opiates and other pain medications, according to the Pennsylvania Medical Society. The Legislature could vote this month on four bills that would establish a statewide monitoring system to…
Scottsdale Dermatology Clinic patients became victims of ID theft after billing firm employee stole their information
The Sonoran News reports that two people have been arrested in Maricopa County on charges related to identity theft. One of them, Brittany Davidson, is suspected of stealing the credit card information of multiple patients in the course of her employment at a medical billing firm that is a business associate of Scottsdale Dermatology Clinic….
UK: Confidential patient details were in filing cabinet lost by Sutton hospital
Sophia Sleigh reports: A hospital lost a filing cabinet containing vulnerable patients’ confidential details in a major security breach, it has emerged. Documents, containing data on 63 patients – who could be from anywhere in south-west London – disappeared from Sutton Hospital last year prompting an investigation by Government inspectors. Privacy campaigners have called the…
Former SCDHHS employee pleads guilty to insider breach and conspiracy
Back in April 2012, I noted an insider breach at the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, after they discovered that an employee had copied 228,000 Medicaid recipients’ information and sent it to his personal e-mail. The data were reportedly also shared with one other person. In February 2013, Christopher R. Lykes, Jr., the…