Dr. Ana Menezes Monteiro writes that Centro Hospitalar Barreiro Montijo has been fined 400,000 euros for violating the General Data Protection Regulation. The country’s regulator, Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Dados, found three violations of the GDPR: — a violation of Article 5(1)(c), a minimization principle, by allowing indiscriminate access to an excessive number of users,…
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Jury Awards $853,000 to Woman After Leak of Confidential Medical Information
Robert Storace reports: A Bridgeport Superior Court jury has awarded $853,000 to a former Connecticut resident whose medical records were released to her former boyfriend without her knowledge. At an earlier stage, the Connecticut Supreme Court used this case to state in a matter of first impression that a violation of medical privacy under a…
Vendors team to try to reduce patient data snooping
Joseph Goedert reports: CynergisTek is a cybersecurity and information management consultancy with expertise in the optimization of privacy programs and its partner, Protenus, offers technology to monitor health professionals’ behaviors using analytical and artificial intelligence technologies. Two health IT vendors are developing a service to enable providers to establish and maintain an effective privacy monitoring…
Anonymous patient data may not be as private as previously thought
Linda Carroll reports: For years, researchers have been studying medical conditions using huge swaths of patient data with identifying information removed to protect people’s privacy. But a new study suggests hackers may be able to match “de-identified” health information to patient identities. In a test case described in JAMA Network Open, researchers used artificial intelligence…