Unintended – and unwelcome – consequences of HIPAA? Isaac Wolf reports: Medical providers say that federal law hamstrings ID theft victims from seeing files created in their name: That’s because medical records created about all patients — including identity thieves who use your name – are covered by privacy rules in the Health Insurance Portability…
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NB Privacy commissioner probes storage of medical records
Tammy Scott-Wallace reports: The province’s access to information and privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into the proper safekeeping of medical records in light of concerns in the Sussex area. Last month patients of Dr. Cathy Hurd, who left her practice in Sussex before Christmas to work outside the province, were outraged when they received…
Activist’s Hospital Records Stolen: “I Am Fearful For My Life; I Am Under Psychological Pressure From Security Forces”
This is not the typical kind of medical privacy breach that I post to this blog, but it’s a reminder that there are many types of privacy breaches and some may be particularly malignant: Following news that security forces stole Narges Mohammadi’s medical records, she spoke the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about…
Supreme Court Case Could Jeopardize Medical Record Privacy
As is usually the case, EFF and I agree. Their recent press release on Sorrell v. IMS: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to focus on the privacy issues at stake in a battle over the sale and data mining of medical records, urging justices to reverse a ruling that…
Ca: Medical records sent to roofer by mistake
Vancouver Island Health Authority is investigating an apparent privacy breach in which medical records were repeatedly faxed to a Langford roofer. Problems arose in replying to physicians’ faxed requests for procedures in the medical imaging department, said VIHA spokeswoman Suzanne Germain. “This particular medical clinic had their fax number in tiny font on the fax…
EPIC Files Amicus Brief on Risk of "Reidentification," Urges US Supreme Court to Uphold Vermont Privacy Law
From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed an amicus brief in Sorrell v. IMS Health, a case now before the US Supreme Court concerning a state privacy law that seeks to regulate datamining of prescription records for commercial purposes. Datamining companies have challenged the Vermont law, arguing that it violates the First Amendment and also that there…