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Author: Dissent

UF warns patients of security breach

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Dissent

University of Florida officials will be notifying about 1,900 patients of a UF plastic surgeon that their private health information might have been breached after the information was managed and disposed of improperly. Dr. Francis D. Ong, a UF assistant professor of plastic surgery at the UF College of Medicine-Jacksonville, stored unsecured digital photographs of…

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NHS disc containing sensitive data lost

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Dissent

Caroline Gammell reports in the Telegraph: A computer disc containing the medical records of more than 38,000 NHS patients went missing when it was sent to a software company to be backed up – in case the records got lost. The information, which dates back 10 years, was mislaid somewhere between London and Sandown Health…

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Patients get control over health information access

Posted on May 20, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

IBM and HIPAAT – the leading provider of consent management solutions to the healthcare industry – are joining forces to bring innovative health-information privacy controls to patients and care providers. The IBM-HIPAAT collaboration extends patient-driven privacy to Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Personal Health Records (PHRs) and Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). Combined…

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Just Looking: Consumer Use of the Internet to Manage Care

Posted on May 20, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

The California HealthCare Foundation released a new report last week: Just Looking: Consumer Use of the Internet to Manage Care [pdf]. From the introduction to the report: A recent Pew Internet and American Life survey showed that 80 percent of consumers search the Internet for health-related information. Yet their relationship to health information on the…

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Experiment with online medical privacy

Posted on May 20, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

Much attention has greeted Google’s pilot project to provide electronic medical records online. But concerns about violations of privacy are woefully misplaced. […] Considering the state of medical privacy, the gain from consumer-controlled medical records simply outweighs privacy concerns. Rather than apply a federal medical privacy law to Google, state legislatures interested in protecting privacy…

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Cyber criminals overseas steal U.S. electronic health records

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Dissent

Bob Brewin of NextGov reports: In 2004, when Bush administration officials unveiled a project to provide every American with an electronic health record by 2014, they pledged to put privacy and security first. But the discovery in April of stolen health records containing sensitive medical information about U.S. patients on a computer server in Malaysia…

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