Over on HealthBlawg, David Harlow has a thoughtful commentary on the revelations of a huge DNS security hole for the adoption of EHR and PHR. An excerpt: Providers that have not adopted EHR systems to date could use this sort of news as an additional excuse to try to delay the inevitable. A study published…
Author: Dissent
UK: Colchester manager sacked over lost laptop
Joe Fernandez reports on eHealth Insider: A senior hospital manager, who lost a laptop containing the unencrypted records of more than 20,000 patients while he was on holiday, has been dismissed from his position. The manager from Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust, lost the laptop in Edinburgh in June, and was initially suspended while…
CMS will test use of Medicare data in commercial PHRs
Nancy Ferris reports in Government Health IT: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is undertaking a third pilot program to test the use of online personal health records by Medicare beneficiaries. In the new pilot, CMS will populate commercial PHRs with Medicare claims data. The agency plans to select as many as four commercial…
Ie: 100 medical records lost by NHS in three years
Lisa Smyth reports in the Belfast Telegraph: Nearly 100 medical records have been lost in Northern Ireland over the last three years. Health Minister Michael McGimpsey revealed the figures in response to a question from DUP MLA Simon Hamilton — who is alarmed at the number of lost records. Figures released by Mr McGimpsey show…
Records loss may violate U.S. law (follow-up)
Liz Austin Peterson of the Houston Chronicle reports: A low-level Harris County Hospital District administrator probably violated federal law when she downloaded medical and financial records for 1,200 patients with HIV, AIDS and other medical conditions onto a flash drive that later was lost or stolen, legal experts said Thursday. […] “This is an egregious…
Emmett: Missing records belonged to AIDS patients
Liz Austin Peterson updates us on the missing Harris County Hospital District breach: Many of the medical and financial records stored on a flash drive that has gone missing from the Harris County Hospital District belonged to patients with HIV or AIDS, Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said today. […] Emmett, who was briefed on…