The Canadian Press reports: The P.E.I. government is under fire for its handling of a privacy breach in which photos taken of residents of a long term care home were shared on social media. A CBC report says one photo shared on Snapchat in the spring of 2015 was a head shot of a deceased…
Category: Healthcare
Chelsea Manning’s Legal Team Responds to Unconfirmed Rumors About Her Hospitalization
Apart from the outrageousness of the Army not contacting Manning’s team, I’m inclined to treat this as a privacy breach. It may actually be a HIPAA breach, although I’m not confident about that without further information. I realize there are some who may say that as a public figure or semi-public figure, Manning has less…
NJ Plastic Surgeon Sued For Using Patient Photos For Ads
Bill Wichert reports: A New Jersey plastic surgeon has been slapped with an invasion of privacy lawsuit in state court from a former patient alleging the doctor used “before and after” photos of her for advertising purposes without her consent. Jennifer Peeples asserts Dr. Paul Fondacaro claimed the photos were solely taken to be included…
Big Data and big mistakes
Dr. Kevin R. Stone has an OpEd in the San Francisco Examiner that’s worth noting: “Big Data” refers to the mining of enormous data banks for trends, patterns and strategies for influencing decision making in an informed way. One example of this is The Hospital Electronic Medical Records. In this case, vast amounts of data are…