Joseph Conn reports: The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., one of the nation’s premier and best-known healthcare organizations, has yet to deploy the HealthVault personal health record from Microsoft Corp., despite a big-splash publicity notice linking of the two organizations more than a year ago, according to Mayo spokesman Karl Oestreich. The Mayo Clinic, thus, is…
Stimulus bill puts burden on physicians to tell patients of data breach
Karen Caffarini reports: Sending a letter to patients to notify them of a data breach in your office is more than just a nice thing to do — it’s becoming something you must do. The recently passed stimulus legislation — the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 — includes language that requires any physician…
Tennessee Senate Committee Passes Proposal That Would Allow Greater Restrictions On Abortion
Tennessee’s Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved 6-2 a proposal that would change the state constitution to allow greater restrictions on abortion, the AP/Tennessean reports. Read more in Medical News Today.
Stolen-data trove offers look inside a botnet
Jordan Robertson of the Associated Press reports on what researchers from Prevx found on a Ukrainian web site used as to store data from 160,000 infected computers. What they found included data from a Georgia bank that exposed customer details and credentials for the bank’s wire-transfer system, and data from two states’ systems. Read more.
Japanese court orders ISP to reveal file-leaker’s ID
From Daily Yomiuri Online: The Tokyo District Court has ordered an Internet service provider to reveal the name and address of a person who used file-swapping software to spread leaked private information on the Internet of about 110,000 Kanagawa prefectural high school students in fiscal 2006, it has been learned. IBM Japan Ltd., which had…
Binghamton U. exploring criminal charges against student reporters
If you’re standing in a public space in a state university building, and you look up and wonder what a door from what appears to be a mezzanine leads to, and you climb up to find out, open an unmarked door that has tape over the lock, and then take photographs of records containing personal…