Health Information Privacy Conference

'Horror stories' at meeting on health privacy

Article published at CTV.ca

Canadian Press

REGINA -- The case of a medical office clerk who illegally checked the health records of her lover's wife was cited as an inappropriate breach of health information at a groundbreaking meeting on privacy.

The story was told to about 140 health and privacy experts gathered in Regina on Monday for the first Prairie health information privacy conference.

"This person did it. They accessed another person's very personal health records involving cancer and lab results and biopsies," Alberta privacy commissioner Frank Work said of the medical clerk.

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HHS, GAO criticized over privacy report

HHS, GAO criticized over privacy report
Published at ModernHealthcare.com by: Joseph Conn

Last week, the Government Accountability Office issued a mild rebuke to HHS over its handling of privacy and security issues while the department leads the federal effort to promote development of a national healthcare information network.

Reaction to the GAO report within the privacy community was far more strident. In fact, both HHS and the GAO were zinged with criticism.

The 52-page GAO report, issued Thursday, was the focus of discussion the following day in Washington at a meeting of the Senate subcommittee on federal government management, the federal workforce and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

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