Category: Modern Day Hatfield-McCoy: Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault

jingemi
The Hatfields and McCoys, a metaphor for a modern day high-tech industry rivalry centered on personal health records (PHRs) unfolding between Google Health, Microsoft HealthVault and other PHR vendors. A metaphor that only a West Virginia health care lawyer can really appreciate.
Thanks to a tweet by @2healthguru for pointing out the cnet […]

jingemi
Information Week is covering a story involving an extortion letter sent last week to the Virginia Department of Health Professions seeking $10M to return more than 8M patient records and 35M prescriptions allegedly stolen from the Virginia Department of Health Professions.
The extortion demand was posted on WikiLeaks. The WikiLeaks website states:
May 3, 2009Summary
On […]

jingemi
Information Week is covering a story involving an extortion letter sent last week to the Virginia Department of Health Professionals seeking $10M to return more than 8M patient records and 35M prescriptions allegedly stolen from the Virginia Department of Health Professionals.
The extortion demand was posted on WikiLeaks. The WikiLeaks website states:
May 3, 2009
Summary
On […]

Jaan Sidorov
Yesterday, April 16, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission released its proposed Health Breach Notification Rule for Vendors of Personal Health Records (PHRs) and Electronic Health Information.
The official title of the proposed rule is: 16. C.F.R. Part 318: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Request for Public Comments Concerning Proposed Health Breach Notification Rule, […]

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span style=”;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%;” This week’s settlement by CVS, the nations largest retail pharmacy chain, to pay the U.S. government a $2.25 million settlement and take corrective action highlights the need for providers and other covered entities to focus on the simple privacy protections such as appropriately disposing of patient information […]

John Goodman
Today the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) issued a href=”http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/documents/NationwidePS_Framework.pdf”The Nationwide Privacy and Security Framework for Electronic Exchange of Individually Identifiable Health Information/a. The summary states that the framework creates a set of principles and consistent approach to:br /blockquote”. . .address the privacy and security challenges […]

Malorye Allison
Last week two new California data privacy and security bills were signed into law. a href=”http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_541_bill_20080930_chaptered.pdf”Senate Bill 541/a and a href=”http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_0201-0250/ab_211_bill_20080930_chaptered.pdf”Assembly Bill 211/a set new breach disclosure standards and require security controls for preventing unauthorized access to patient data.br /br /I previously a href=”http://healthcarebloglaw.blogspot.com/2008/09/california-proposes-new-privacy-breach.html”posted/a about the bills before they were finalized. […]

David Harlow
Last month The LA Times reported on a new law (AB 211 and SB 541) moving through the California Legislature to increase protections around confidential medical and health information and create a new state Office of Health Information Integrity to oversee compliance, investigate breaches and assess fines.
The article cites the high […]

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The a href=”http://www.hhs.gov/”U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/a (HHS) issued a a href=”http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/enforcement/resolution.html”press release/a last Thursday that it had entered into a a href=”http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/enforcement/agreement.pdf”Resolution Agreement/a with Seattle-based a href=”http://www.providence.org/home/default.htm”Providence Heath amp; Services/aa href=”http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/”Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) privacy and security rules/a. The agreement calls for Providence to […]

Scott MacStravic
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a press release last Thursday that it had entered into a Resolution Agreement with Seattle-based Providence Heath & Services to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) privacy and security rules. The agreement calls for […]