Here’s a run-down of the 29 breaches HHS added to its breach tool today, organized by those we already knew about vs. ones that we didn’t know about. With today’s additions, the breach counter on HHS for breaches affecting over 500 patients stands at 711 since September 23, 2009 when HITECH reporting requirements went into…
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So the police have a warrant…. does that compel the physician to help execute it?
Decades ago, while teaching emergency medical techniques to police and fire department personnel, a volunteer ambulance worker asked us what he should have done when a police officer on the scene ordered him to do something that he felt was wrong from an emergency medical standpoint. “He threatened to arrest me if I didn’t comply,…
Ca: Error in eHealth fax system results in privacy breach
Jodi Schellenberg reports: Another reporting error has been made — but this one isn’t the Prince Albert Parkland Health Region’s fault. The eHealth Saskatchewan, the Treasury Board Crown Corporation responsible for the implementation of the provincial electronic health record, mistakenly faxed 18 results in the province to a private residence. Out of those results, one…
It's too easy for others to buy your medical information
Privacy advocates tend to know the following, but I suspect the general public doesn’t and would be a bit shocked. Laura Hutchinson of WWLP in Massachusetts, reported in a piece on medical identity theft: The 22News I-Team did an experiment and found we didn’t have to pay any money at all to find out names…
Two Floridians plead guilty in connection with Sunshine Pharmacy health care fraud scheme
Delmer Holmes Parrish, 44, a licensed pharmacist, and Patricia Parrish, 74, both of Naples, Florida, today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. According to the plea agreement, from in or around February 2009 through in or about July 2012, the two participated in a conspiracy to defraud federal health care benefit programs…
Commentary: It's time for California and HHS to do a serious smackdown on "jokes" that invade privacy (update 1)
It seems like only last month that I reported on a lawsuit stemming from a practical joke played on a patient/co-worker by a surgeon and hospital staff. Oh wait, it was just last month, and it involved Torrance Memorial Medical Center. No wonder I had a deja vu experience reading this report today by Barbara…