Do they really think we’re stupid? Yesterday, I noted Rep. Joe Barton’s ridiculous questioning concerning whether Healthcare.gov violates HIPAA. Rep. Barton was not the only member of the GOP trying to use scare tactics about HIPAA and the site, however. Watch this exchange between CNN’s Carol Costello and Rep. Marsha Blackburn: Look, folks, there…
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Court Overturns Presuit Patient Authorization Requirement Under Florida Medical Malpractice Statute
Anne C. Foster writes: On September 25, 2013, the Northern District Court of Florida, Tallahassee Division, ruled that Florida Statute § 766.1065 violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) by requiring a plaintiff in a medical malpractice action to deliver a presuit authorization which allows the defending medical professionals to conduct ex…
Obamacare exchange contractors had past security lapses
Be forewarned: I will not allow the comments section for this post to be used as a political platform on Obamacare. Comments about whether government should consider past breaches or problems in awarding government contracts for jobs involving personally identifiable information are welcome. Jaikumar Vijayan reports: Two of the contractors involved in developing the Affordable…
Medical Start-up Invited Millions Of Patients To Write Reviews They May Not Realize Are Public. Some Are Explicit. (update2)
Update: Practice Fusion responded to the Forbes story. See the Comments section below for a link to their statement. Kashmir Hill writes: Medical records start-up Practice Fusion has attracted a whopping $134 million in venture capital thanks to its appealing business model: it offers 100,000 (and counting) medical types free, web-based patient management services. The doctors get…
Laptop thefts compromise 700,000-plus hospital patient files
Richard Winton reports: The theft of two laptop computers from a hospital administration office in Alhambra has compromised the health information of 729,000 patients, including their social security numbers, officials said Monday. The laptops were stolen Oct. 12 and contain data from patients treated at AHMC [AHMC Healthcare Inc.] hospitals: Garfield Medical Center, Monterey Park…
Privacy breach at Northern Inyo Hospital could result in criminal charges
From today’s Inyo Register in Bishop, California: Local law enforcement has opened an investigation into the theft of medical records from Northern Inyo Hospital in a case that has shaken community members and NIH itself. This past summer, hospital officials noticed that an employee in the records department had illegally obtained and was in possession…