This case has been going on for years, and you can find coverage of it on this site starting in 2008. And as a privacy advocate, I’m obviously strongly on the side of holding hospital and healthcare personnel responsible and accountable if they violate patient privacy or confidentiality. And indeed, some employees were fired and…
Category: Healthcare
Regulators who targeted controversial autism doctor may pay millions for breaching his medical privacy
Fenit Nirappil reports: Mark Geier built a medical practice in Rockville, Md., and a national reputation for propagating the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism. The Maryland Board of Physicians suspended his license seven years ago because he was treating autistic children with a drug considered dangerous for young people and not known to alleviate…
Health chiefs prepare four miles worth of top-secret records move within Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
James Wyllie reports: Health bosses are preparing to move hundreds of thousands of patient records to a secret location within Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Work to move the documents, currently housed in a secure basement beneath the hospital, is scheduled to begin next month. […] NHS Grampian is keeping the documents’ new home top secret in…
Insurers in Kansas asking mental-health providers for notes from patient sessions
Andy Marso reports: Susan Eyman, a psychologist in Lawrence, Kansas, told a patient last year that the patient’s insurance company had requested her notes from their therapy sessions as part of an audit of her billings. Eyman said the patient was shocked. The notes included intensely personal things about trauma he had told her in…