From the Napa Valley Register: Queen of the Valley Medical Center remains under investigation by the California Department of Public Health following last year’s patient data breach. The data breach became publicly known this past April, when a class action lawsuit was filed in Sonoma County against St. Joseph Health System, operator of Queen of…
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CT: Update – Attorney General's investigation into MidState data breach over
Jesse Buchanan reports: State Attorney General George Jepson has ended an investigation into last year’s data breach at MidState Medical Center and hasn’t called for any further action. MidState informed the public in April of last year that 93,500 patients’ files were downloaded onto a hard drive at Hartford Hospital by an employee who took…
Kaiser Permanente stuck in odd struggle with tiny Indio vendor
This news report by Chris Rauber appeared on June 1, but I just became aware of it thanks to a reader: Giant Kaiser Permanente has found itself locked in a David-and-Goliath-scale struggle with a tiny Southern California record storage vendor over up to 1 million unencrypted Kaiser patient records the vendor claims remain on servers in his…
Judge Bars Enforcement Of ‘Docs Vs. Glocks’ Gun Law
From The News Service of Florida: Saying it was based on anecdotal information and unfounded conjecture, a federal judge has barred enforcement of a 2011 state law that restricted doctors from asking patients about guns in their houses. U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke ruled Friday that lawmakers had failed to make the case that gun…
CA: AB 439 Would Weaken Medical Privacy Law
Richard Holober reports: California lawmakers are poised to weaken a patient privacy law despite its overwhelming voter support. AB 439 (Skinner) is before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a vote on Tuesday July 3. The bill would create loopholes in the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA), placing patients at risk of repeated unauthorized release…
Ca: Hospital-record outsourcing raises privacy, safety fears
Kathy Tomlinson reports: A Vancouver man who transcribes medical records for a living says patients have reason to worry about the privacy and accuracy of their medical information. Donan Forde says that’s because all dictated reports by hospital physicians in B.C.’s Lower Mainland will soon be transcribed by private contractors, accessing and working on records…