Kate Andries reports: Your phone knows everything about you — how much you walk, talk and what level of Candy Crush you’re stuck on — but soon it could be spilling secrets to your doctor. More and more physicians are prescribing apps that help track their patients’ illnesses through information collected by their smartphones. “[The…
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Recent California Decision Upholds Data Breach Coverage
Understanding what your insurance will cover when it comes to a data breach and what it won’t can save you a lot of grief down the road. Roberta D. Anderson of K&L Gates analyzes a recent case where the court concluded that a breached entity was covered under the terms of their policy’s language, but…
Maryland Attorney General's Office enforcement actions for improper disposal of records with PHI
I was just reading news story about a breach in Maryland, and was surprised to learn that the Maryland Attorney General’s Office had charged two health care entities with improper disposal of records and that both cases had settled over the summer. Here’s the press release from August 27, 2013: Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler…
Ca: Medical marijuana users launch proposed lawsuit after Health Canada privacy gaffe
I wish I had a dollar for every mailing error where someone’s Social Security number was exposed in the envelope window or embedded in the mailing address – or where one person’s statement got combined with another person’s in the same envelope. But those kind of mailing errors are nothing compared to a mailing error…
UK: Your medical records – now on sale
Ross Anderson writes: Your medical records are now officially on sale. American drug companies now learn that MedRed BT Health Cloud will provide public access to 50 million de-identified patient records from UK. David Cameron announced in 2011 that every NHS patient would be a research patient, with their records opened up to private healthcare firms. He promised…
Whose data is it anyway?
John Moore and Rob Tholemeier write: A common and somewhat unique aspect to EHR vendor contracts is that the EHR vendor lays claim to the data entered into their system. Rob and I have worked in many industries as analysts. Nowhere, in our collective experience, have we seen such a thing. Manufacturers, retailers, financial institutions, etc. would…