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Ca: Hospital-record outsourcing raises privacy, safety fears

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Dissent

Kathy Tomlinson reports:

A Vancouver man who transcribes medical records for a living says patients have reason to worry about the privacy and accuracy of their medical information.

Donan Forde says that’s because all dictated reports by hospital physicians in B.C.’s Lower Mainland will soon be transcribed by private contractors, accessing and working on records from home.

“I think it should remain in the hospital — not in someone’s living room or kitchen or den,” said Forde, who has worked as a medical transcriptionist for 14 years, both in hospitals and as a work-at-home contractor.

“For five years I worked in the private sector and not once did anyone come and check to see if my home computer was password protected to see if I had a working environment that was private — not in five years.”

Read more on CBC News.

He raises an excellent point – one that applies far beyond his geographic region. It would nice to see an audit of this here.

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