Hannah Clay Wareham reports: The debacle beginning in March 2009 with the loss of confidential patient records on a Red Line train continues in the new year with allegations of harassment against Massachusetts General Hospital staff. […] Soon after Jacob received the administrative assistant’s e-mail, Jacob says an anonymous caller alerted him to the appearance…
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On Managing Your Own Health Records
By Doug Pollack, Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts One of the panels at the Consumer Electronics Show Digital Health Summit is asking a really interesting question: Who will you trust with your health data? As described in an article in Healthcare IT News on healthcare data privacy and security, there have been numerous data…
UK: Records stolen from hospital that held secret DNA database
Mark Tighe reports: Two computer servers containing the records of almost 1m patients were stolen from the Children’s University hospital in Temple Street in 2007 and have never been recovered. The data were far more than that lost on stolen bank laptops in recent years. The theft was investigated by the data protection commissioner (DPC)…
Does HITECH necessitate a change in your Notice of Privacy Practices?
Attorney Jeff Drummond blogs: Changing your NoPP? As you know, the original Privacy Rule requried covered entities to adopt a “Notice of Privacy Practices” to tell patients (or beneficiaries if you’re a health plan) how they plan to use and disclose the individuals’ PHI. You get this sheet each time you go to a doctor…
Ex-UCLA researcher pleads guilty to record breach
Shaya Tayefe Mohajer of Associated Press reports: A former UCLA School of Medicine researcher pleaded guilty to reading confidential medical records of celebrities, high-profile patients and his co-workers in federal court on Friday. Los Angeles resident Huping Zhou, 38, entered a conditional guilty plea to four counts of violating federal medical privacy laws in a…
Balancing medical privacy and criminal prosecution
If HIPAA is violated, can any evidence obtained be used against you in a criminal proceeding? According to a case in Maryland: yes. John Wesley Hall Jr. of FourthAmendment.com writes: Defendant’s BAC [blood alcohol level] level for DUI [driving under the influence] was obtained in violation of HIPAA since a trial subpoena was issued by…