Jacques Gallant and Marco Chown Oved report: At least three GTA [Greater Toronto Area – Dissent] hospitals do not proactively audit their patient records to detect privacy breaches, the Star has learned. A survey of 24 hospitals and health-care centres found that more than half say they check their information systems for inappropriate access at least…
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NY: Patient Calls NY Info-Sharing Unconstitutional
Jonathan Perlow reports: New York state is collecting confidential information on mental health patients to create a database of people it deems unfit to carry a firearm, according to a federal class action. Lead plaintiff Donald Montgomery claims the state created a reporting system, as part of the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement…
Court case places patient-physician relationship in the balance
Via Dr. Ken Pope’s mail list, this news release from the AMA: Two essential elements of medical practice—patient privacy and the patient-physician relationship—are at stake in a case before a federal appeals court that involves a state prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) and surveillance by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The issue in question…
Mercy Medical Center Redding Oncology Clinic notifies patients of privacy breach (updated)
Another exposure breach of transcription records from a medical practice: On December 13, 2014 Mercy Medical Center Redding Oncology Clinic discovered that transcribed physician progress notes containing your demographic and treatment information for services provided during June – October 2014, were publically accessible on a third party website. Upon discovery the third party removed the…
Stolen Northwestern Memorial Healthcare computer had information of 2,800 patients
Carlos Sadovi reports: Nearly 3,000 patients are being notified that a laptop computer stolen in October contained health information from patients of the Northwestern Memorial Healthcare group, hospital officials said Friday The 2,800 people had been patients of Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Medical Group, officials said in press release…
Former Owensboro Medical Health System employee pleads guilty to misusing patient info
There’s an update to a breach PHIPrivacy.net reported in November 2013 involving a billing specialist at Owensboro Medical Health System who used patients’ information to secure loans from online lenders for her own use. This was a criminal prosecution under HIPAA, although there were also other counts under other federal statutes. The Messenger-Inquirer reports that Ilene…