Mitch Wagner of InformationWeek reports on a new social networking site: Mental Health Social launched a new social network designed to let people with mental health conditions or those interested in those conditions to connect in a comfortable online environment. MentalHealthSocial.com is designed to allow people to share experiences anonymously, reach out to others with…
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Healthcare Data Breaches Slow To Surface
Doug Pollack, Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts, wrote the following article, questioning why we’re not yet seeing any reports of breaches affecting 500 or more posted to HHS’s website under the provisions of HITECH that went into effect September 23. Keeping in mind that not all breaches involving healthcare organizations involve unsecured protected health…
CA: Breach Of Privacy Information At Kern Medical Center
On Oct. 31, a theft occurred at Kern Medical Center outside the Information Services Department located at 1700 Mount Vernon Ave. Documents that were intended for the KMC Laboratory Department were stolen from a set of external lockers outside the KMC Information Systems building, according to Paul Hensler, Chief Executive Officer for Kern Medical Center….
NH: Pathology lab doctors say WDH punishing them for reporting privacy breaches by rogue employee
Adam D. Krauss reports on a case of what seems to involve patient record tampering without any clear financial or other motivation. In a fairly detailed story, Krauss discusses some of both the privacy and data security issues: Two doctors who run the pathology lab at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital say they’ll soon be out of a…
Wake Radiology out of UNC-CH Mammography study
Eric Ferreri recently reported a follow-up to the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill mammography study breach: Wake Radiology has suspended its relationship with the UNC Chapel Hill medical school study whose computer server was recently hacked, exposing personal data including social security numbers of more than 100,000 patients. The practice will only participate again…
States, Consumer Advocates Challenge Rx Data Mining
Andrew Zajac reports: When your doctors writes you a prescription, that’s just between you, your doctor, and maybe your health insurance company–right? Wrong. As things stand now, the pharmaceutical companies that make those prescription drugs are also looking over the doctor’s shoulder, keeping track of how many prescriptions for whose drugs the individual physician is…