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Tom Hays reports: Police in New York City plan to combat the theft of painkillers and other highly addictive prescription medicines by asking pharmacies to hide fake pill bottles fitted with GPS devices amid the legitimate supplies on their shelves. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly outlined the plan Tuesday at a La Quinta, Calif., conference on…

Following a recent data breach, Jackson Health  has banned volunteers from using cell phones in patient areas.  

Major problems averted. Well done, Doctor! A New Plymouth orthopaedic surgeon whose premises were burgled after Christmas says confidential patient records were never at risk. John Pennington, of Noradene at 85 Vivian St, said his portable hard drive was stolen but the burglars could not have accessed patient files. The stolen hard drive and two…

File this under the I-didn’t-see-this-one-coming dept.: Chad Terhune of the L. A. Times reports: In an ongoing legal battle over confidential patient data, a state judge refused to grant Kaiser Permanente access to the personal computers and email account of a couple the healthcare giant hired to store nearly 300,000 hospital files. […] In October,…

Joseph Lazzarotti writes: As more companies move to the cloud, regulatory compliance remains a critical issue. For cloud service providers to the healthcare industry, it looks like the requirement to comply with the HIPAA privacy and security rules as business associates will be confirmed when long-awaited final regulations are issued, based on a report by Marianne Kolbasuk McGee with Healthcare Information…

Police officers have been known to illegally stop someone from recording their actions in public spaces.  But police in Ramsey County have offered a new “explanation” and claim that a man recording an incident in public violated HIPAA.  Emily Gurnon reports: Andrew Henderson watched as Ramsey County sheriff’s deputies frisked a bloody-faced man outside his…