Emily Alpert Reyes reports: Flanked by their lawyers, the divorced parents hashed out an agreement outside the Pasadena courtroom and returned to inform the judge: They had agreed their young son would get the COVID-19 vaccine. “Absolutely he needs to be vaccinated,” Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Harvey A. Silberman said. Then he asked…
Category: Healthcare
HIPAA Privacy and Security: At a Crossroads in 2022?
Attorney David Holtzman writes: The HHS Office for Civil Rights, the agency with primary responsibility for regulation of the HIPAA standards, is slated to address a controversial proposal developed under the Trump administration that would make extensive changes to the Privacy Rule, a congressional mandate to expand its mission into the confidentiality of substance use disorder treatment records, and the department’s…
Administrative fine imposed on psychotherapy centre Vastaamo for data protection violations
A hack and extortion attempt involving the psychotherapy center in Vastaamo, Finland was — and remains — one of the worst breaches ever covered on PogoWasRight.org and DataBreaches.net because it involved the sensitive mental health information of tens of thousands of patients and a coverup by an executive of the clinic. Now EDPB has posted…
Idea of national patient IDs revives privacy fight
Ben Leonard reports: Advocates of unique IDs to match patients to their health records may be close to lifting a decadeslong congressional ban on using federal funds to develop the system. The effort, long mired in broader debates over patient privacy, gained steam this fall when the Senate for the first time left the ban…