Medical Patient Security
Better safe than sorry: Express Scripts should notify everyone, 10/02/09, www.databreaches.net
Almost a year after it was contacted by an extortionist, pharmacy benefits management company Express Scripts first learned that the extortionist was in possession of at least 700,000 more members’ personal information…
FTC issues Health Breach Notification Rule, 08/18/09, www.pogowasright.org
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) is issuing this final rule…
‘Anonymized’ data really isn’t – and here’s why not, 09/08/09, www.pogowasright.org
The Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission had a bright idea back in the mid-1990s—it decided to release “anonymized” data on state employees that showed every single hospital visit.
Patient’s Guide to HIPAA: How to Use the Law to Guard your Health Privacy
Report: Rethinking the Role of Consent in Protecting Health Information Privacy, 1,26,2009, www.pogowasright.org
News release: “CDT today released a major policy paper intended to move the health privacy debate…
Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers, 8/4/08, www.pogowasright.org
Health and life insurance companies have access to a powerful new tool for evaluating whether to cover individual consumers: a health “credit report” drawn from databases containing prescription drug records on more than 200 million Americans.
ANNOUNCE: Pogo’s Medical Privacy News Section is Moving to its Own Site, 03/05/08, www.pogowasright.org
Privacy Group Sounds Alarms Over Personal Health Records Systems, 02/20/08, www.pogowasright.org
Concerns over Limits of HIPAA Medical Privacy Rule, 10/23/06, www.kaisernetwork.org
GAO: Medicare Data Network Vulnerable, 10/03/06, www.infoworld.com
U.S. Congress to Gut State Medical Privacy Laws? , 2/11/06, www.medicalnewstoday.com
Medical Data on 365,000 Stolen, 1/26/06, www.slashdot.org
Data Protection Used as Smokescreen, 1/18/06, www.theregister.co.uk
HIPAA Privacy Rule, 10/4/04, www.bespacific.com