Hugh Adami reports: One would think The Ottawa Hospital would readily explain to Allyson Merrison how an X-ray technician — her husband’s ex-wife — was punished for electronically breaching her medical records six times over 10 months. But, says the hospital, privacy laws for its employees prevent it from revealing how it dealt with Teri…
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Hospital Breach by Job Applicant
Over on the EMR and HIPAA blog, John says he’s torn about the case where a young man has been charged for his somewhat poorly thought out approach to a job interview with Houston Healthcare: … Honestly, Robert Rhodes, chief information officer for Houston Healthcare, just sounds like an angry CIO whose security efforts were torn…
Tempering justice with mercy?
A number of people have commented on Twitter and on this blog that the young man who was arrested for breaching the Houston Healthcare database should have been thanked and/or hired. If this were 1983, I might agree with them, but I found myself taking a harder line about the breach as it was not…
Social Networking Guidelines for Physicians, Office Staff and Patients
The Healthcare IT Guy blogs: Ohio State Medical Association (OSMA) Legal Services Group has released their Social Media Toolkit for Physicians, Office Staff and Patients to “help physicians navigate through the world of online communication”. I’ve taken a quick look and it’s a terrific document with a good discussion of whether or not physicians should “friend”…
Orange Regional Medical Center asks investigators for info on breach
Following revelations yesterday by the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office of a massive Medicare fraud scam that utilized patient data stolen, in part, from Orange Regional Medical Center in New York, I asked the center whether they had known about the breach when it occurred in 2005 and whether and when patients were notified of…
UK doctors’ personal data found on used hard drive sold online
There have been many instances in the U.S. of personal data showing up on equipment sold at online and offline auctions. Once such case in the U.K. involved doctors’ data and the company responsible for the data, Healthcare Locums Plc (HCL), a UK specialist healthcare recruitment agency, has now been found in breach of the Data Protection Act…