In the justice system: Yomi Jagunna, one of 8 people arrested last year as part of a New Jersey ring, pleaded guilty for his part in setting up a phony collection agency to obtain access to commercial databases where they obtained Social Security numbers and info. Jagunna pleaded guilty to selling 39 SSN, but prosecutors…
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Ca: Vaughan mayor wants to re-open e-mail snooping report
Caroline Grech reports: A report looking into how Mayor Linda Jackson’s e-mails ended up on the doorstep of former Mayor Michael Di Biase’s doorstep during the heated 2006 municipal election campaign has finally been made public. The report, obtained by the Vaughan Citizen, concluded the hacking of Ms Jackson’s e-mail was not due to an…
Ph: Hospitals review policies in light of YouTube case
Jeannette Andrade, Kara Andrade, and Jerome Aning of the Philippine Daily Inquirer report: Hospitals in the Central Visayas region are strengthening their policies on patients’ right to privacy, particularly the prohibition of cellular phones and cameras in operating rooms, after an embarrassing video of a rectal operation found its way on the worldwide video-sharing site…
Privacy Experts' Roundtable Report Will Highlight Privacy & Security Week
A press release from AHIMA via PRNewswire: A new report that features four leading experts in health information management in an extended roundtable discussion on key issues related to the privacy and security of health information-and ways in which the industry may best address those issues — is now available. “Online, on Message, on Duty:…
Sponsors seek to move on health IT bill
Nancy Ferris writes in Government Health IT: The leaders of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee joined representatives of the Business Roundtable in calling once again for passage of the Wired for Health Care Quality Act. Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), the committee’s chairman, and ranking member Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) acknowledged that the bill…
Commentary: Paternalism — and protectionism — rears its ugly head
In the past few days, I’ve read two articles that are of particular concern to me because they raise the specter of “physician as God” when it comes to online health records or information. The first article, by Thomas Goetz in the New York Times, discusses a web site called PatientsLikeMe.com where patients can share…