MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'hipaa violation'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:00:25 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4921560&cid=t_167758_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2011%2F06%2F01%2Fdrug-mailings-and-patient-privacy%2F Many of you have quickly realized that I find it a lot more interesting to write about EMR than I do about HIPAA. Seems like most people prefer to read about EMR than they do HIPAA as well (except for this popular HIPAA Lawsuits post I did eons ago). However, I’m sure that many of you will find this article I found about privacy of medical data quite interesting. Here’s a quote from the beginning of the article which prefaces the health privacy situation quite well. A pharmaceutical company, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., sent him an eight-page brochure pitching another medicine, Abilify, used to treat patients “when an antidepressant alone isn’t enough.” Lexapro was plenty for Spencer, but the mailing stuck in his craw. He has followed the recent debate over the u... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4921560 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:40:22 +0100 4921560 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4570609&cid=t_167758_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FFmI61RondR4%2F John’s Note: One of the requests I got in the recent survey I did was to cover more details of HIPAA. So, I’m glad to have John Brewer (yes, another John) providing some guest posts on the subject. Do they go together like peanut butter and jelly?  Cookies and milk? Nothing quite as good as these…but they do go together…now. HIPAA has been around for some time.  Many argue that HIPAA has no “teeth”.  Sure it has big fines…but when’s the last time you heard of a physician getting fined for a HIPAA violation? In steps Meaningful Use. Buried in the details of the Stage 1 Core Objectives is a single block that refers to the seemingly innocuous statement of “Conduct a risk analysis per 45CFR164.308(a)(1)”. A risk analysis seem simple enough…right? Dig a lit... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4570609 Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:03:09 +0100 4570609 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4552057&cid=t_167758_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Ffirst-monetary-hipaa-fine-issued%2F2011.03.05 Via the Threatpost article “HIPAA Bares Its Teeth: $4.3m Fine For Privacy Violation“: The health care industry’s toothless tiger finally bared its teeth, as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a $4.3 m fine to a Maryland health care provider for violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The action is the first monetary fine issued since the Act was passed in 1996. … A copy of a penalty notice against Cignet depicts a two-year effort in which HHS struggled with what appears to be a dysfunctional Maryland provider unaware of the potential impact of HIPAA non-compliance, and unwilling or unable to cooperate with HHS in any way. When first reading the title I was willing to rail against HIPAA, as I’m tired of it. Then I read the post. Wow. It’s like ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4552057 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:00:37 +0100 4552057 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4151943&cid=t_167758_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2010%2F11%2F05%2Ffull-disk-encryption-for-hipaa-protected-computers%2F In all of the various HIPAA violations I’ve read about, they almost always blame some lack of encryption on the violation. In most of those cases it’s a laptop or other mobile device that should have had disk encryption that didn’t. The problem I have with disk encryption is that I’m not familiar with any really easy to implement, but effective solutions for doing full disk encryption on a device. I’m not talking about enterprise encryption. I’m talking about encryption that can work in the small or even solo medical practice. Not to mention at the small clinic price point too. If you know of a solution, I’d love to hear about it. Related posts:Obama Wants Full EHR by 2014 Obama has held very strong on his commitment of $10... Full CCHIT Certifi... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4151943 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:58:27 +0100 4151943 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4013287&cid=t_167758_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEmrAndHipaa%2F%7E3%2FYLGOrinMKfo%2F A New York City hospital has apologized for a security lapse that allowed personal information belonging to as many as 6,800 former patients to be published on the Internet. New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center says the information included names, clinical data and a few social security numbers. The hospital said in a statement that the data had been inadvertently placed on a server, which was accessible online. The information has now been taken down. -Source This is a pretty sad indiscretion although it is lacking some important details. I hate that it only says personal information for 6800 former patients. Ok, putting ANY health information on an insecure web server is just dumb, but not all health information is created equal. Plus, wouldn’t it be ni... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4013287 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:17:07 +0100 4013287 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3683620&cid=t_167758_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fpatient-doctor-facebook-friends-could-be-a-hipaa-violation%2F2010.06.21 Should you friend your doctor on Facebook? It’s a question that’s gaining increasing relevance as Facebook increases its social networking dominance. I’ve touched upon the issue in the past. So has the New England Journal of Medicine. Washington, DC, physician Katherine Chretian gives her take on the issue in a recent USA Today op-ed. She is an expert of the Facebook-medicine intersection, having authored a JAMA study on the issue. She says, no, doctors should not be friending their patients: Having a so-called dual relationship with a patient — that is, a financial, social or professional relationship in addition to the therapeutic relationship — can lead to serious ethical issues and potentially impair professional judgment. We need professional boundaries to do our job well. F... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3683620 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:00:12 +0100 3683620 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1196738&cid=t_167758_140_f&fid=35448&url=http%3A%2F%2Fseemedlikeagoodideathetime.com%2F2008%2F02%2F02%2Fif-brit-wants-to-be-in-the-club%2F Open enrollment period begins….now. Okay Brit. I guess it was almost a year ago when I thought, Here comes another misbehaved famous person about to magically become bipolar overnight to get out of something. Britney, I’m sorry, about all the crap I said before. What is important now is …. Get your ass out of there. Get it together. Get a lawyer, a doctor that cares about YOU, not what you have, and get your stuff back before they take it all…..that includes your freedom, your brain cells and your life. Holy crap. The leeches have control now. “smiling and embracing” They should have given it to K-Fed, at least he is Father of the Year. Seriously. That sucks. She better shape up, learn the rules, and play along, or she will be screwed….as in her ... bipolar chicks blogging blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1196738 Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:54:57 +0100 1196738