Google Health has undergone some tweaks. You can read about how Google Health corresponds to — or doesn’t correspond to — HIPAA protections here. Kudos to them for providing a comparison chart. Google Health Privacy Policy can be found here.
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AHIMA Files Response to HHS Privacy Rules
Press release from AHIMA: “While AHIMA continues to applaud federal government support for the ideal of protecting patients’ health information rights, the proposed rule-making for HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement by HHS has a number of requirements that we do not believe the industry is ready to undertake; especially as it gears up for Meaningful…
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Appeals CDPH Fine (updated)
For Release: September 09, 2010 PALO ALTO, Calif. — Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford is appealing a California Department of Public Health (CDPH) penalty. The CDPH on April 23, 2010, after the self-reporting of a security incident by Packard Children’s, alerted the hospital that a fine of $250,000 was being levied as a result…
UK: Government presses ahead with Summary Care Records despite privacy threats
Ian Grant reports: The government is to press ahead with its controversial patient summary care record, but the details of what it will contain will be known only later this month. This was revealed by the Department of Health’s director general for informatics, Christine Connelly on Thursday. The summary care record (SCR) is a centralised…
California State Agency Released Confidential HIV Information: ACLU and Lambda Legal Demand Explanation
Today Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC), and HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance (HALSA) sent a letter to David Maxwell-Jolly, Director of the California Department of Health Care Services, demanding a full explanation for the unauthorized and illegal disclosures of confidential identifying information of approximately 5,000 HIV-positive Medi-Cal recipients….
Fi: Data protection breached most often by nosy co-workers
The other day I posted something about data protection of healthcare records in Finland. That report indicated that breaches in the private healthcare sector were more common than in the public healthcare sector. Today’s Helsinki Times discusses the Ombudsman’s report and sheds some additional light on the nature and extent of breaches there: “Disputes in…