Ross Anderson writes: Your medical records are now officially on sale. American drug companies now learn that MedRed BT Health Cloud will provide public access to 50 million de-identified patient records from UK. David Cameron announced in 2011 that every NHS patient would be a research patient, with their records opened up to private healthcare firms. He promised…
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Whose data is it anyway?
John Moore and Rob Tholemeier write: A common and somewhat unique aspect to EHR vendor contracts is that the EHR vendor lays claim to the data entered into their system. Rob and I have worked in many industries as analysts. Nowhere, in our collective experience, have we seen such a thing. Manufacturers, retailers, financial institutions, etc. would…
Meanwhile, in FTC v. LabMD….
Just to keep everyone apprised on developments in the case this month: LabMD filed a motion to quash 35 subpoenas that had been issued on one day. And on November 12, LabMD filed its motion to dismiss the FTC complaint with prejudice and to stay administrative proceedings. In their motion to dismiss, LabMD raises essentially the same arguments that…
Authorities investigating cybersecurity incidents targeting Obamacare website
The Chicago Tribune reports: U.S. authorities are investigating a series of cybersecurity incidents targeting the HealthCare.gov website at the center of President Obama’s healthcare law, a U.S. homeland security official told Congress on Wednesday. Roberta Stempfley, acting assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, said her department was aware of “about…
Authorities investigating cybersecurity incidents targeting Obamacare website
The Chicago Tribune reports: U.S. authorities are investigating a series of cybersecurity incidents targeting the HealthCare.gov website at the center of President Obama’s healthcare law, a U.S. homeland security official told Congress on Wednesday. Roberta Stempfley, acting assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, said her department was aware…
Follow-up: Can a clinic be held liable for employee's bad acts?
And speaking of how much a health care facility can do about a rogue employee and whether they are responsible or liable, there is an update to a case I first noted here in 2011 involving a Guthrie Healthcare System clinic in Corning, New York. In that case, a nurse willfully disclosed a patient’s information on…