Joe Dahlke reports: Five nurses at Denver Health Medical Center were suspended for three weeks after opening a bag to inappropriately view a deceased patient’s genitals, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday. The incident was reported after a different nurse overheard one of the suspended nurses make a comment about it, according to a Denver Health…
Category: Healthcare
If you care about medical privacy, then what happened to Justin Bieber should concern you
Good grief. When I saw this headline, my first thought was that maybe OurMine had hacked the NY Daily News, but it seems the headline was for real. Justin Bieber had reportedly sought emergency medical care, an employee had been fired for allegedly accessing his medical records without necessity, and somehow the press found out…
HHS Secretary Waives Certain HIPAA Privacy Rule Provisions for Texas and Louisiana Hospitals; OCR Issues Bulletin for Medical Professionals Navigating HIPAA Rules in Emergency Situations
From HHS, clarification during these difficult times: HHS Secretary Waives Certain HIPAA Privacy Rule Provisions for Texas and Louisiana Hospitals; OCR Issues Bulletin for Medical Professionals Navigating HIPAA Rules in Emergency Situations In response to Hurricane Harvey, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price, M.D., declared a public health emergency in…
Aetna Accused of Outing HIV Patients in Settlement Letters
I reported on Aetna’s breach over on DataBreaches.net, but I think the lawsuit concerning it may be of more interest on this blog because of the irony: in an attempt to better protect privacy of sensitive information, using envelopes with windows exposed the very sensitive information that needed protecting. Lowell Neumann Nickey reports: Health insurance…