Abstract: This chapter seeks to identify some of the reasons why “privacy” remains so contentious. Here I suggest several possible answers ranging from “micro” issues such as what we understand by health privacy to more “macro” and operational issues as we seek to protect health information. First, lawyers have made consistent errors in the terminology…
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Article: Assessing the Status of Medical Information in the Light of the UK Data Protection Act 1998
Abstract: This paper will consider the current privacy laws as applied to healthcare in the UK, taking into account the UK Data Protection Act 1998, which implements the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC. Whilst the data protection laws in the UK deals with the overall protection of an individual’s personal information, there are certain…
Express Scripts Warns of Potential Large Data Breach Tied to Threat
Express Scripts (Nasdaq:ESRX), one of the largest pharmacy benefit management companies in North America, today announced that it has received a letter from an unknown person or persons trying to extort money from the company by threatening to expose millions of the company’s patients’ records. The letter included personal information of 75 members, including their…
UK: Anger at medical records blunder
Jo Deeks reports: A WOMAN received confidential letters from Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge containing medical records of other patients. Nicola Marsh was horrified to receive the two letters in one envelope at her home in Haverhill. Read more in Cambridge News Online
Some ID-theft schemes target Canada's health-care system
Pauline Tam reports: Criminals are exploiting lax security in government databases to assume false identities and take advantage of Canada’s health-care system, warns a leading expert in identity fraud. But such scams go largely unprosecuted because there is no concerted effort by government agencies to go after bogus health-care claimants, says former Edmonton police detective…
UK: Medical records found dumped near canal in Barrowford
Simone Yates reports: AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after hundreds of personal medical documents were found dumped beside a canal between Barrowford and Foulridge. The confidential documents featured information about patients from across East Lancashire including names, addresses and whether they had HIV, syphillis or had suffered from a heart attack. Pendle Denture Centre, in…