Sheel Pandya reports: On Tuesday, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology (Health IT) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a proposed rule that establishes two voluntary certification programs to test and certify health IT. The National Coordinator for health IT is required by the American Recovery…
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AU: Medicare privacy breaches 'only the beginning'
Carly Laird reports: Revelations that Medicare employees are being investigated for spying on customers’ personal information have renewed fears from privacy advocates that healthcare staff cannot be trusted. As the Federal Government works to bring in a national identity scheme for patients, around 400 cases have emerged of unauthorised snooping on people’s private records over…
OCR/HHS reveals two more breaches
The public list of breaches reported to HHS under the HITECH Act was updated to add two entries. Both entries are associated with the same business associate: MSO of Puerto Rico. I do not see anything on the web sites of the covered entities or the business associate about the incident nor did I see…
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Over the weekend, I added 19 financial, 21 business, 4 healthcare, 1 government and 1 not-for-profit breaches thanks to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office updating their web site. You may also be interested in reading how much manpower was involved in trying to identify whose data and what kinds of data were in the audio…
Britney Spears’ Attorneys Worried About Personal Leaks
Feras Ballout reports on PowerWebSpoilers: Britney Spears’ conservatorship attorneys, Geraldine Wyle and Jeryll Cohen, are worried that personal and medical information will leak out into the media unless it’s put under legal lock and key – and have taken steps to do just that. In their argument, the attorneys note that “A Google search for…
UK: Computer boffin on NHS Spine: Get out while you can
John Leyden reports: A leading computer scientist has sounded a warning over an NHS data collection plan, urging patients to opt out. The Summary Care Record (SCR) scheme will make outlines of medical records available to hundreds of thousands of NHS staff in England. The idea is to provide doctors and nurses in England with…