Tara Deschamps reports: Two Mount Sinai Hospital staff members breached privacy when they “inappropriately accessed” Mayor Rob Ford’s health records, the hospital said today. Read more on The Toronto Star. To their credit, the hospital discovered the breach through their own internal mechanisms. They do not say, however, what disciplinary action the two staff members…
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Cyber-Sleuth or Cyber-Thief? LabMD Case Continues to Expose the Good, the Bad, and the Downright Ugly in Cyber-Security Developments
Over on HIPAA, HITECH, and HIT, Elizabeth Litten comments on FTC’s administrative case against LabMD, a case I’ve been following here for the past few years. After recapping the case, she writes: This case isn’t over, and it remains to be seen whether [Administrative Law Judge] Chappell will find the witness’s testimony credible and/or relevant…
Cover Oregon investigates another security breach
Gosia Wozniacka of AP reports: A Klamath Falls woman who applied for health coverage through Cover Oregon says the insurance exchange mailed her the personal information of other applicants. Ann Migliaccio (mil-YAH’-choh) told The Associated Press that she received documents last week containing the names and birth dates of two applicants from Hillsboro. She says the…
TX: Dallas warns that ‘small number’ of laptops containing patient information are missing from ambulances
Robert Wilonsky reports: Dallas City Hall revealed late Tuesday that “a small number” of laptops containing patient information have gone missing from Dallas Fire-Rescue ambulances. According to the city, those computers disappeared between January 1, 2011, and August 29, 2014. The city’s release did not say how many laptops were unaccounted for — or how…
HHS Names New ONC Privacy Chief
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: The Department of Health and Human Services has appointed Lucia Savage, an attorney at insurer United Healthcare, as the new chief privacy officer of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. ONC is best known for its work on guidelines for the HITECH Act’s electronic health records incentive program, but its projects are changing…
Lawyers Ask California's Supreme Court to Review Medical Data Breach Case
Marisa Kendall reports: It’s time for the state’s highest court to determine when to hold a medical care provider liable for compromised patient data, according to plaintiffs lawyers who lost a privacy case against Sutter Medical Foundation this summer. The lawyers argue state appellate courts are at odds over whether the theft of patient records…