Laura Tester reports on yet another breach involving paper records, this one in Canada: A Red Deer physician violated a provincial law after 10 large boxes of patient records were left behind during an office move, says a report released by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner on Wednesday. Provincial investigator Brian Hamilton…
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Panel drafts privacy recommendations for health data exchanges
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: A “tiger team” that advises the federally charted Health IT Policy Committee will submit a list of recommendations on Thursday for ensuring the privacy and security of personally identifiable health information in Health Data Exchanges. The recommendations were developed in response to a specific set of privacy-related questions raised by the Office…
Stolen Yale laptop has health info of 1,000 people
Yale School of Medicine today began notifying approximately 1,000 people whose clinical health information was contained on a laptop computer that was stolen last month. There is no indication that any individual information on the computer has been misused, officials said. Yale and New Haven police departments have been working together and will continue to…
UK: Medical notes lost in car park
Confidential patient medical records and a blank prescription pad have been found strewn across a Dudley clinic’s car park. The shocking lapse in security over patients’ intimate medical details could land The Central Clinic, Hall Street, in trouble as the blunder breaks several data protection laws and regulations. […] Dr Paul Brian Varney Brettell, whose…
CMSS Joins 'Red Flags Rule' Lawsuit Against FTC
What happens when you try to prevent ID theft by imposing new requirements on entities? Everyone wants out from under. Cheryl Clark reports on today’s installment of “Not me, please:” The Council of Medical Specialty Societies, which represents some 650,000 U.S. physician specialists in 34 societies, has announced its participation in a lawsuit to exempt…
Your Great Granddaddy Had Syphilis And Now Everyone Knows It
Harley Geiger writes about an issue I’ve discussed on this blog in the past: the privacy of the deceased’s medical records: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wants to remove health information privacy protections from people who have been dead for 50 years. HHS issued a proposed rule to update health privacy regulations,…