In today’s installment, we gaze into the crystal ball to see what 2011 might have in store for us: What are the top security and privacy issues facing the healthcare industry in 2011? A panel of healthcare experts representing privacy, trends, technology, regulatory, data breach, and governance were asked to weigh in with their forecasts…
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UK: Scandal of computer snooping by public servants includes medical information
Jack Blanchard reports the results of a freedom of information request on police in Yorkshire, UK. Revelations concerning non-medical incidents are posted to PogoWasRight, but here are the medically related incidents: The cases include… a doctor in Doncaster caught looking at a colleague’s medical records. At one hospital, in Rotherham, a cleaner was caught only…
Why Are Health Data Leaking Online? Bad Software, Study Says
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries reports: Hard-to-use software is behind the leakage of sensitive health data online, according to a study by Dartmouth researchers published in December. Health documents with sensitive patient information can be found in “peer-to-peer” networks, which people typically use to share music files and the like. The programs used to navigate these networks often…
CO: Medical marijuana records found near Dumpster (update 2)
Christina Dickinson and Dave Delozier report: It was the last thing Harold Morton expected to find while taking some recyclables out to the alley behind his home. When he walked past a Dumpster, he saw it in a cardboard box: a thick blue binder. “I picked the book up and I opened it and right…
CO: Medical marijuana records found near Dumpster (update3)
Christina Dickinson and Dave Delozier report: It was the last thing Harold Morton expected to find while taking some recyclables out to the alley behind his home. When he walked past a Dumpster, he saw it in a cardboard box: a thick blue binder. “I picked the book up and I opened it and right…
IN: Man billed $50,000 for medical ID theft
Kendra Yagow reports: Deaconess Hospital is out $50,000 in what authorities are calling a case of identity theft. Evansville Police were received a call on Monday after a hospital worker reported a patient received services, but it was his brother who got the bill, and he doesn’t even live in Indiana. […] Police don’t know…