Michael Dinan reports on TMCNet: A medical technology company announced today that implantable devices to measure data such as people’s heart rhythms could soon be used to send health records to doctors and databases. St. Jude Medical, Inc. is working with Microsoft Corp. Health Solutions Group to determine how data collected through devices such…
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Ca: Health records found beside trash
Lori Coolican reports in The StarPhoenix: As he walked past the Mall at Lawson Heights on his way to work Wednesday, Garnet Nicholson noticed an envelope on the ground by a garbage can outside the entrance to a department store. Something about it struck him as odd, so he went over and looked inside. He…
TX: Settlement reached over medical records
Liz Austin Peterson reports in the Houston Chronicle: The Harris County Hospital District and the Texas Attorney General’s Office have agreed to settle a lawsuit over the privacy of medical records for a Houston jail inmate who died while hog-tied in a padded cell, a hospital district spokesman said this week. The hospital district sued…
RI: Hospital reports security breach
A security breach was reported at Roger Williams Medical Center. Hospital officials said Dr. Satori Iwamoto, a skin cancer specialist, had a digital camera stolen from an outpatient area. The pictures of at least three cancer patients in various stages of treatment were on the camera. Each picture had the patient’s name on it. A…
Medical privacy still isn't protected (Letter to the Editor)
Seen in the The Baltimore Sun: The Sun‘s article on the Senate’s vote to bar discrimination based on the results of genetic testing (“Measure would bar use of information by insurers, employers,” April 25) failed to address the key problem with personal medical information in America: Why do insurers, employers and others have access to…
When UPMC wrist ID tells too much
Steve Twedt of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports: Linda Berkley of Braddock was playing with her granddaughter Saturday evening when the infant grabbed the identification bracelet Mrs. Berkley had received earlier in the day at the UPMC Braddock emergency room. As she pulled her arm away, Mrs. Berkley glanced at the bracelet and was horrified by…