I’ve often commented how entities shield the names of rogue employees or contractors. Here’s a letter to an editor from Ann Cavoukian, Information Privacy Commissioner for Ontario, about the paper’s coverage of an insider privacy breach: Your article suggests the North Bay and District Hospital was unable to reveal to patients the name of the…
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Canadians denied U.S. entry over mental illness
Sarah Bridge reports: More than a dozen Canadians have told the Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office in Toronto within the past year that they were blocked from entering the United States after their records of mental illness were shared with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Lois Kamenitz, 65, of Toronto contacted the office last fall,…
HHS submits its annual report to Congress on breaches
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights has submitted its mandated report to Congress on breach reports it has received. The report covers incidents reported between September 23, 2009 (the date the breach notification requirements became effective), and December 31, 2010. Here are some of the highlights of the report:…
HHS submits its annual report to Congress on breaches
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights has submitted its mandated report to Congress on breach reports it has received. The report covers incidents reported between September 23, 2009 (the date the breach notification requirements became effective), and December 31, 2010. Here are some of the highlights of the report:…
UK: Breaches at University Hospital of South Manchester NHS and London Ambulance Service result in undertakings
A press release from the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reveals two privacy breaches resulting in agreements to take remedial and proactive steps. The University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust breached the Data Protection Act by losing sensitive personal information relating to the treatment of 87 patients. The information was lost after a…
Law requiring Florida pharmacists to send drug information to state starts Thursday
Dara Kam reports: More than two years after lawmakers created it, a statewide prescription drug database will go live Thursday, sort of. Pharmacists and dispensing practitioners must begin entering data for more than 100 prescription drugs with potential for abuse into the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, or PDMP. But doctors won’t be able to access…