Maria Dinzeo reports on a class action lawsuit stemming from a 2007 breach that was first reported earlier this year: Twenty-nine thousand Kaiser employees say the company did not inform them for more than a year about a security breach that left their personal information vulnerable to thieves. One employee says a woman stole her…
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AHIMA issues health information Bill of Rights
The American Health Information Management Association has issue a Health Information Bill of Rights (pdf). The Preamble states: […] AHIMA has established these seven measures for the sole purpose of protecting healthcare consumers. Ours is a comprehensive set of liberties to safeguard every individual’s right to lawful access of their personal health information; to prevent…
Civil rights office unveils genetic privacy proposals
Joseph Conn reports: Two notices of proposed rulemaking and a proposed interim final rule, all interpreting the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, or GINA, have been issued by various federal departments and agencies, HHS’ Civil Rights Office announced. The civil rights office has issued its notice of proposed rulemaking to address privacy issues regarding…
Early detection through trending can save thousands of lives
Lucas Mearian reports: Mining electronic patient data to discover health trends and automate life-saving health alerts for patients and their doctors will be the greatest benefit of electronic medical records (EMR), but a survey released today finds a lack of standards, privacy concerns by hospitals and patients and technology limitations is holding back progress. Hundreds…
Lawyer Faces Felony Charge for Allegedly Bribing Hospital Workers
Joel Stashenko reports: A felony charge was filed Wednesday against an attorney who is accused of bribing hospital employees for confidential medical information that he allegedly used to solicit clients in a no-fault insurance scam. New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo said the charge against William R. Hamel, an attorney at Dinkes & Schwitzer…
Merrill Lynch sues three alleged phishers
Courthouse News reports: Three people posing as Merrill Lynch recruiters conned job seekers into revealing their bank account numbers by claiming they needed the information to make direct deposits into their accounts, Merrill Lynch claims in Federal Court. Merrill Lynch says the three people “hatched a nefarious plot” and created the domain email address “merrilllynchcareers.com”…