Julie Straw of WDAM reports: A tweet to Governor Haley Barbour ended with a University Medical Center employee resigning from her job. She said she was simply using the social networking site Twitter to exercise her right to freedom of speech. UMC officials said it was a violation of privacy laws. Last Tuesday afternoon Governor…
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After further review, investigator doesn't think WDH had to report data breach
Adam D. Krauss brings us the latest on the controversy over a breach at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital: A state investigator says after reviewing additional information he still doesn’t think Wentworth-Douglass Hospital had to notify patients impacted by the privacy breach. James Boffetti, who leads the Office of the Attorney General’s consumer protection and antitrust bureau, said…
VA, Kaiser Permanente launch e-health records exchange
Lucas Mearian reports: In a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership, health-care network giant Kaiser Permanente and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs today unveiled a pilot program they’ve been using to share patient electronic health records over the past several months. The program connects the VA’s VistA (Veterans Affairs Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture) and Kaiser…
More on the HITECH-mandated breach reports on HHS
Several weeks ago, I initiated an inquiry about the breach reports that I expected to see on HHS’s web site. Under the new HITECH Act provisions, covered entities experiencing breaches involving the unsecured PHI of 500 or more patients are required to report the incident to HHS – if the incident meets the “harm threshold”…
How to Prevent Top Three Health Information Breaches
Dom Nicastro writes: Major breaches of patient information in 2009 break down into three types: snoopers, hackers, and those involving large quantities of data. So let’s examine the top breaches from the past year and find out what facilities can do to prevent similar problems. Read more on HealthLeadersMedia.com
Suits filed over Aurora's use of medical data in bankruptcy cases
Bruce Vielmetti reports: Susan Dandridge knew that when she sought protection in bankruptcy court last year, information about her debts and income would go into a public court file. “It’s old bills and stuff from my earlier life I’m trying to clean up,” said the 53-year-old admissions adviser at Herzing University, a for-profit college with…