August 29, 2019 — A former billing clerk with Alberta Health Services (AHS) pleaded guilty in Red Deer Provincial Court to illegally accessing health information under the Health Information Act (HIA) on August 21, 2019. Rosario Aldave was found to have accessed the health records of 52 Albertans without authorization. She received a $5,000 fine and was…
Category: Healthcare
Google, Medical Center Ask Court to Dismiss Privacy Lawsuit
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee reports: Google and the University of Chicago Medical Center have filed motions to dismiss a class action lawsuit that alleges patients’ electronic health records were not properly de-identified by the hospital before they were shared with Google to support the company’s predictive medical data analytics technology development efforts. The hospital and Google…
Medical Data De-Identification Is Under Attack
David Talby writes how scientists are getting closer to complete re-identification of supposedly de-identified data. He writes, in part: Getting Closer To Complete Re-identification June 2019 has posed two attacks on this long-time status quo: a technical one and a legal one. The technical attack came via a paper published in Nature which shows how…
AU: Young Hospital staff accused of breaching patient privacy
The Young Witness reports: An employee from the Young Hospital has spoken out accusing nurses, doctors and staff of breaching a patient’s privacy. According to the source, who wished to remain anonymous, a patient presented to the Emergency Department with an item inside their body. The source said some of the staff from the hospital…