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Maureen McKinney reports: Exeter (N.H.) Hospital is pushing back against New Hampshire investigators, arguing that the state’s request for access to hospital medical records in connection with a criminal investigation is a violation of patient privacy laws. The hospital received wide attention in July when David Kwiatkowski, a lab technician formerly employed at the hospital,…

This is unusual. A former employee out to embarrass her employer, Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital, allegedly sent letters to patients who had received electroshock therapy to tell them that the therapy had failed and that they should get frontal lobotomies.  And according to a report by Rummana Hussain  of the Chicago Sun-Times,  some of the letters included…

If you’re like me, you probably never heard of MedPoint or Milliman Intelli-Script. But did you know that they may have all your prescription records and they make them available to your insurance company or potential insurance company? No, well you might want to read Cathy Jett’s article on Fredericksburg.com.

Taylor Armerding reports the conflicting opinions of privacy experts on the risks associated with health exchanges. You can read his coverage on PC Advisor.

Rich Daly reports: Strong state privacy laws continue to complicate health information exchanges’ efforts to ease health-data sharing, a senior federal health technology official said Monday. And a key to overcoming such obstacles may be greater use of meta tags. Joy Pritts, chief privacy officer in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information…

An interesting federal case in the Southern District of Ohio Eastern Division reminds us that the HIPAA statute does not provide for a private cause of action. And so, when the Ohio Hospital for Psychiatry sought to compel a former employee to return patient information she had allegedly removed improperly, the court had to deny…