HHS added 13 more breaches to its breach tool this week. Let’s start with the breaches we already had some information about and indicate what new information can be gleaned from HHS’s entries: The Vitreo-Retinal Medical Group breach reportedly affected 1,837. The California Correctional Health Care Services breach affected 1,001 inmates. The Indiana Family & Social Services Administration…
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Ninth months later, almost 860 Indiana residents are first being notified of the ADPI breach.
James D. Wolf Jr. of the Post-Tribune reported today that up to 860 patients who used the City of Valparaiso Fire Department ambulance service last year would be receiving breach notification letters from ADPI. You remember the ADPI breach, of course. I first reported on it November, 2012, when I also started compiling a list…
50-State Report Unveiled; States Track Medical Data from Birth to Death Without Consent
A new report from Citizens Council for Health Freedom was released this week. Here’s their press release on it: Today, Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF, CCHFreedom.org) is releasing the findings of one of its most important works to date. For the past eight years, CCHF has been researching health departments in all 50 states to find out how they use…
IE: Abortion 'privacy breach' slammed
The Clinical Director of the National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, has strongly critcised the ‘leaking’ of details of a termination at the hospital which was reported to be the first to be carried out under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act. Dr Peter Boylan expressed outrage at the leak, which he said could have…
Student Claims Arrogant Doc Ruined Her
Jack Bouboushian reports: A physician ruined a college student’s career prospects by taking photos of her recovering from an alcohol binge in a hospital emergency room and posting them, with comments, on Facebook and Instagram, the student claims in court. Elena Chernyakova sued Dr. Vinaya Puppala, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and the Feinberg School of Medicine…
Data Protection audits in the NHS
Jon Baines writes that the results of a small survey involving junior doctors at two general district hospitals may be so concerning as to require compulsory ICO audits: all NHS bodies are required to comply with the comprehensive and demanding IG Toolkit and in my experience there are some extremely skilled and dedicated people working in the…