For Release: September 09, 2010 PALO ALTO, Calif. — Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford is appealing a California Department of Public Health (CDPH) penalty. The CDPH on April 23, 2010, after the self-reporting of a security incident by Packard Children’s, alerted the hospital that a fine of $250,000 was being levied as a result…
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UK: Government presses ahead with Summary Care Records despite privacy threats
Ian Grant reports: The government is to press ahead with its controversial patient summary care record, but the details of what it will contain will be known only later this month. This was revealed by the Department of Health’s director general for informatics, Christine Connelly on Thursday. The summary care record (SCR) is a centralised…
South Shore Hospital won't provide individual notice. Do they have to?
Joseph Goedert has an interesting article on Health Data Management about the South Shore Hospital breach, focusing on whether South Shore Hospital is required, under HITECH, to notify individuals by postal mail or if they can use the “substitute notice” provisions under Massachusetts law. Goedert writes, in part: According to a new statement on…
California State Agency Released Confidential HIV Information: ACLU and Lambda Legal Demand Explanation
Today Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC), and HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance (HALSA) sent a letter to David Maxwell-Jolly, Director of the California Department of Health Care Services, demanding a full explanation for the unauthorized and illegal disclosures of confidential identifying information of approximately 5,000 HIV-positive Medi-Cal recipients….
California hospital fined $250k for tardy breach notice to state (updated)
If you’re supposed to report a breach to the state of California, you’d darn well better report it in a timely fashion. HealthLeaders Media reports that Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford University has been fined $250,000 by the California Department of Public Health for failing to report a patient records breach <del>by April 23</del>. The…
Ca: Doctors should tell police when they suspect a crime, drug report recommends
And yet another really bad idea…. tin star badges for doctors. It’s an intrusion on doctor-patient confidentiality and as I’ve written in the past, I’m firmly opposed to it. That a physicians’ group is the one proposing it is particularly unsettling. Allison Jones reports: Ontario’s doctors should be legally required to tell police when they…