Hospitals underrate malicious intent in data breaches
May 26th, 2008
Hospitals generally are well aware of what they have to do under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to ensure the security of...
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Anti-Discrimination Bill Inadvertently Legalizes Sharing of Genetic Information Without Patient Consent
May 1st, 2008
“While authors of the recently passed Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (H.R. 493) had good intentions, the bill inadvertently legalizes the sharing of...
Patient Privacy Rights (Deborah Peel) issues a press release about the NEJM article on PHRs.
April 21st, 2008
Contrary to popular belief, the ‘P’ in HIPAA does not stand for ‘privacy.’ Rather, HIPAA allows millions of healthcare businesses to snoop in our...
Do Patients Have Access to Therapy or Personal Notes?
April 18th, 2008
The HIPAA Privacy Rule and state law govern whether patients have access to psychotherapy notes. But understanding which one takes precedence and when is...
Celebrity Medical Records Hacked: Are You at Risk?
April 10th, 2008
It’s not surprising that hospital employees would be interested in the medical records of celebrities like Maria Shriver, Farrah Fawcett, Britney Spears and George...
Records of up to 71,000 Georgians made available on Internet
April 10th, 2008
The state Department of Community Health said it has notified state and federal agencies that a Florida company mistakenly put the private records of...
Recent Data Breaches Spark Criticism of Medical Privacy Laws
April 9th, 2008
In response to recent data breaches, privacy advocates are calling for changes to medical privacy rules to allow patients to control who can access...
Effectiveness of medical privacy law is questioned
April 9th, 2008
Despite 34,000 complaints of violations in the last five years, the federal act has resulted in only a few prosecutions, and no civil fines...
Peel on Perlegen
April 1st, 2008
An EMR vendor (whose name is kept secret) profits from secret access to Americans’ health information and the patients don’t know their health information...
Electronic Health Records wired for abuse
March 29th, 2008
“Oops! They did it to Britney again.” No, it’s not a song parody, but a reflection of the poor state of American health privacy...