David Allison reports: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has fired and sued a top executive for allegedly taking the hospital’s proprietary information, including children’s patient health information, numbers assigned to health care providers by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and the state license numbers for more than 500 health care providers. In a complaint filed Oct. 25…
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App For Doctors Sends Unencrypted Data
Max Eddy reports on a review of Calculate by QxMD: Appthority’s CTO Kevin Watkins writes that app fails to live up to the promises made by its own privacy policy. Specifically, the app sends private data over the network unencrypted and in plaintext. “This action directly contradicts what is stated in the app’s privacy policy: that…
Massive data breach a 'national security risk'
From The Local in Sweden: Three million Swedes may have had their medical journals available to prying eyes, after a large-scale IT failure affected patients in Stockholm and Gotland. The Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper, which made the discovery, reported on Wednesday that there were signs that intruders had tried to access medical journals. The medical…
#DoNoHarm: Rhode Island Issues Social Media Guidance for Physicians
Kate Sweet writes: As health care providers continue to try to navigate the world of social media, the Rhode Island Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline (the “Board”) has issued policy guidelines (the “Guidelines”) to address the use of social media by the state’s physicians. The Policy Guidelines for the Appropriate Use of Social Media and Social Networking…
Privacy watchdog investigates lost data from Toronto eye clinic
Alex Ballingall reports: Data storage sticks that contain personal and medical information on about 18,000 patients at Toronto Western Hospital’s Donald K. Johnson Eye Centre have gone missing, prompting an apology from the facility’s chief doctor and an investigation by the Ontario privacy watchdog. In an Oct. 17 letter to patients, ophthalmologist-in-chief Dr. Robert Devenyi said a…
ZA: Hospital ‘loses’ crash victims’ files
Nondumiso Mbuyazi reports: Medical records of three Field’s Hill accident survivors are missing from King Edward Hospital. The survivors of the horrific Pinetown truck accident were being treated at the hospital for weeks after the September 5 accident that claimed the lives of 24 people. However, they were told last week that their medical records…