Diana Manos reports: Federal intervention will be needed if the United States hopes to advance nationwide healthcare IT adoption, according to Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag. At a House panel hearing Thursday, Orszag said allowing the free market to evolve into using electronic health records will be too slow. Read more at Healthcare IT…
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Health Care Provider Blogs Do Not Maintain Anonymity, Study Says
Physician and nurse bloggers sometimes inadvertently reveal their identities, as well as their patients’ identities, according to a new study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, USA Today‘s “A Better Life” reports. The study is available online (.pdf). Source – iHealthBeat Brian Robinson of Government Health IT also has an article on the study.
Grady patients' medical records stolen
Craig Schneider reports: The FBI is investigating the theft of medical records of patients at Grady Memorial Hospital, officials said Friday. Grady spokeswoman Denise Simpson provided few details on the thefts that were discovered late Thursday. She said it remains unknown how many patient records were stolen, which patients were affected or how the records…
CA: 10News I-Team Discovers Personal Info In Dumpster
[…] What the I-Team found in one unlocked Dumpster behind the Postal Annex in Lemon Grove was account numbers, Social Security numbers, medical records and even credit card bills. All of these highly sensitive, personal documents belong to people who have mailboxes at the Postal Annex. I-Team reporter Kerstin Lindquist learned that most of the…
Scope of Saint Mary's database questioned (follow-up)
Jason Hildago reports: The fallout continued Thursday from the announcement by Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center of a potential database intrusion that might have exposed the personal information of thousands of clients and patients. Several recipients of the letters expressed concern about the nature of the database, including its size, about 128,000 records, and how…
European Court fines Finland for data breach
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Finnish government to pay out €34,000 because it failed to protect a citizen’s personal data, by not adequately securing and protecting a patient’s confidential record. The case could prove significant by creating a legal precedent, based on the European Convention on Human Rights, linking data security…