Erin McCann has an article on data breaches in the healthcare sector: So who are the biggest offenders by state? Generally, states with the highest population have the highest number of data breaches. For instance, California and Texas top the list, banking the highest number of data breaches in the nation. However, when population is…
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Privacy & Security Training Games
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) Office of the Chief Privacy Officer (OCPO) has released its first web-based security training module, CyberSecure: Your Medical Practice. Play the Game Now . The security training module, which was developed with the assistance of the Regional Extension Center Program’s Privacy and Security Community of Practice,…
Would Patient Ownership of Health Data Improve Confidentiality?
Barbara J. Evans, PhD, JD, LLM writes: Modern testing technology can extract a wealth of information from the merest speck of a person—a biospecimen—and information systems can transmit entire medical records at the click of a mouse. Given these capabilities, confidentiality—the notion that information patients share during medical treatment should not be disclosed to others…
The Fourth Amendment and your medical records
FourthAmendment.com quotes from a new opinion from U.S. District Court in Maryland holding that there is no Fourth Amendment reasonable expectation of privacy in medical records held by a doctor. The case is United States v. Mitchell. Oops: corrected the above as I had omitted a critical “no.”
Ca: Internal Audit at University of Victoria Over Potential Privacy Breach (updated)
cmclean writes: The University of Victoria has launched in an internal audit into allegations of conflict interest and breach of privacy involving the Health Ministry. The government contracts with UVIC to conduct research on prescription drugs and the Health Ministry shares patient information with the university. The province believes that information may have been shared…
Consent needed for disclosure of medical records during subrogation – lawsuit
Justin Quintana filed a potential class action lawsuit against Ingenix that’s of note here because many of us have probably been in automobile accidents where our insurance company pays our bills and then attempts to subrogate, or recover, from the other party’s insurance company. In this case, Quintana alleges that Ingenix violated a number of…