In response to the guilty plea by three employees of St. Vincent Health System, reported here earlier today, Dr. Deborah Peel of PatientPrivacyRights.org issued the following statement: Facebook users can keep people from seeing their walls, but patients can’t keep anyone from seeing their electronic medical records. What’s interesting is how severe the penalties could…
Three plead guilty to accessing slain anchor's medical records
A physician and two former employees of the St. Vincent Health System pleaded guilty today to misdemeanor federal charges for accessing the medical records of slain television anchor Anne Pressly, the U.S. attorney’s office and FBI announced. Dr. Jay Holland and Candida Griffin, both of Little Rock, and Sarah Elizabeth Miller of England, appeared separately…
Free Webinar: Detecting Record Snooping & Automating Compliance
As reported by AIS Health.com and Report on Patient Privacy, under ARRA HITECH medical record snooping is now considered a privacy breach. The HITECH Act’s definition of a ‘breach’ now applies to when a person snoops into patient records: “The term ‘breach’ means the unauthorized acquisition, access, use, or disclosure of protected health information which…
Seeking Bypass: What Will Ultimately End Confidence in the Necessity of Parental Involvement Laws?
On July 14, 2009, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling in Zbaraz v. Madigan, lifting the injunction of the 1995 Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act. Public discourse about parental involvement laws for minors seeking abortions has been quiet in recent years. Many believe that such statutes are common place and the…
Anger over Internet job blunder
A couple have spoken of their anger after confidential job application details were published on Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council’s website by mistake. […] The list has been taken down and measures put in place to stop the mistake from happening again. Mr Curtis added: “We have worked with, and taken advice from, the Information…
Deutsche Bank may face prosecutor’s probe
Prosecutors are examining whether to launch a criminal investigation of possible breaches of data security at Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE), the Frankfurt prosecutor’s office said on Monday. Separately, Deutsche Bank also said it had been informed by the Darmstadt regional council that data security rules were breached in two instances. The Darmstadt authorities had asked…