California’s Attorney General has sent a letter to the Mercury News: The California Department of Justice must safeguard the rights and interests of nearly 40 million Californians. That’s why when it comes to requiring doctors to utilize a database containing sensitive, personal prescription drug information, we won’t sign off until we know it works and…
Category: Healthcare
HHS asked to rule on whether Portland, Maine violated patient privacy laws
Randy Billings reports: A former patient at a city-run health clinic has formally asked federal regulators to determine whether Portland officials violated privacy laws by sharing the names and contact information of more than 200 HIV-positive patients with university researchers without patient consent. Jenson Steel, a former patient at the city’s HIV Positive Health Clinic…
Connecticut case finds health care privacy cause of action
There’s a nice review of a recent and important case in Connecticut. Susan Ross and Kim Gold of Norton Rose Fulbright explain: On January 16, 2018, the Connecticut Supreme Court unilaterally created a new state law cause of action for violation of a patient’s health care privacy. (Byrne v. Avery Center for Obstetrics & Gynecology,…
Microsoft Won’t Patch a Severe Skype Vulnerability Anytime Soon
Normally, something about a Skype vulnerability might be posted over on DataBreaches.net instead of this site, but because therapists may use Skype for online therapy or to communicate with patients, I thought maybe I’d post this one here. Swati Khandelwal writes: A serious vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft-owned most popular free web messaging and…