Melissa Burden reports: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is notifying about 6,500 members whose personal, but non-medical information was exposed on a third-party website, the insurer said today. The nonprofit health insurer said the breach involved a website created by Harper Woods-based Tstream Software, which was doing work on behalf of Warren-based Agent Benefits…
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UK: Dorset HealthCare Trust send confidential health faxes by mistake
Joanna Codd reports: Highly confidential faxes about people with mental health problems have been mistakenly sent to a Bournemouth business over a period of 18 months. Despite the business alerting officials to the problem, the documents have continued to arrive at the offices of Cole Valuations in Exeter Road at the rate of two or…
AU: Couple fighting govt over right to choose sex of their next child
Shelley Hadfield reports on a case that raises significant ethics and privacy questions: A couple so desperate for a baby girl that they terminated twin boys are fighting to choose the sex of their next child. The couple, who have three sons and still grieve for a daughter they lost soon after birth, are going…
Nurse claims she was fired for complaining about HIPAA violations
Michelle Massey reports: A former nurse is seeking more than $15 million from a Tyler hospital alleging she was fired after complaining about employees taking pictures of sedated patients and posting the pictures on Facebook. Debbie Blevins filed suit against Tyler Cardiovascular Consultants on Dec. 22 in the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division. She…
(update) Grant Medical Center notice on data breach
Following a story in today’s Columbus Dispatch, reported earlier today on this blog, Grant Medical Center has issued the following press release and substitute notice on its web site: POTENTIAL SECURITY BREACH AT GRANT COLUMBUS, Ohio – On November 5, 2010, Grant Medical Center discovered that out-of- service computers were stolen from an inventory storage…
CVS Caremark Abuses Medical Info To Compete Unfairly, Class Claims
Bridget Freeland reports that a complaint mentioned on this blog previously has now become a class action lawsuit in North Carolina: CVS Caremark, the nation’s dominant pharmacy chain, uses and abuses the patient information it gets from handling prescriptions from competing pharmacies, by selling the information to drug companies and using it to solicit rivals’…