The most recent update of HHS’s breach tool website reveals three breaches we didn’t know about and one breach that had previously been reported in the media: The Utah Department of Health recently reported the Utah Department of Workforce Services incident involving access to and disclosure of 1298 immigrants’ information. The incident was covered on…
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UK: North West London Hospitals NHS Trust violated Data Protection Act – ICO
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found that a doctor at North West London Hospitals NHS Trust breached the Data Protection Act by leaving medical information about 56 patients on the tube. The incident, which was reported to the ICO by the Trust in May 2010, occurred when a doctor printed out personal and diagnostic…
Feds Study Privacy of Psychotherapy Notes
Joseph Goeddert reports: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will hold the last of a series of public meetings in Los Angeles on Nov. 18 as federal officials study whether HIPAA privacy protections for mental health information should be strengthened by broadening the definition of “psychotherapy notes” to include test data. […] The…
Medical Data Security: Spain Has Problems, Too
Over on AlertBoot, Sang Lee followed up on one of my posts to databreaches.net: After finding a tiny story about data breaches in Spain at databreaches.net, I decided to look into the situation since the article it referred to was quite unsatisfying. Turns out that the issue caused quite a stir in Spain, with over…
Who would send Angie's List their sensitive medical info??!
Danger, Will Robinson! Angie’s List has reportedly started offering a new service to resolve complaints consumers/patients may have about their doctors. But to do so, it reportedly requires users to sign a release that is Very Bad News. According to the Medical Justice Blog, which has called attention to this dangerous release, it says, in part:…
HHS covets role as 'data sugar daddy' to app developers
Mary Mosquera reports: The Health & Human Services Department plans in December to release significantly more health-related data to spur commercial development of new software applications designed to help patients, providers and policymakers make better health care decisions. National, state and county health performance data sets will be made available via the Internet to HHS’s…