Mary Tuma reports: On Oct. 22, Texas Health and Human Services Commission‘s Office of Inspector General staff stormed Planned Parenthood offices unannounced in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Brownsville with subpoenas for thousands of pages of documents in medical-record storage facilities across Texas, including Austin, Waco, and Tyler. Claiming allegations of Medicaid fraud, but without providing concrete evidence, the raiders…
Category: Healthcare
CEA Releases Guidelines on Privacy and Security of Personal Wellness Data
Meena Harris writes: Last week, the Consumer Electronics Association (“CEA”) announced its Guiding Principles on the Privacy and Security of Personal Wellness Data, a set of baseline, voluntary guidelines for private-sector organizations that handle the type of data often produced by wearable technologies. Read about the guidelines on Covington & Burling InsidePrivacy.
Ca: Health-care workers don’t understand Manitoba health privacy act, expert says
Leif Larsen reports: A privacy expert says health-care workers, the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority and even Health Minister Sharon Blady don’t understand what Manitoba’s Personal Health Information Act (PHIA) actually says. Reid Bricker went missing the morning of Oct. 24, after he was released from the Health Sciences Centre. Bricker was involuntarily brought to the hospital…
Federal authorities investigate Henrico State Senate candidate Dunnavant for possible HIPAA violations
WWBT reports: Federal authorities have launched an investigation concerning Republican State Senate candidate Dr. Siobhan Dunnavant, after a complaint alleged the Henrico doctor used her private patient information to solicit contributions, volunteers and votes. The investigation is being led by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights. The Department’s regional…