James Niccolai of IDG News Service reports: Google launched an ambitious initiative Monday that aims to give people a central place online to store their health records and then share them with health-care providers. The public can go today to www.google.com/health and create profiles that include basic medical information such as existing medical conditions, allergies…
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Hospitals underrate malicious intent in data breaches
Pamela Lewis Dolan reports in the May 26 issue of AMNews: Hospitals generally are well aware of what they have to do under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to ensure the security of patient data. They are also aware that their own employees might be the ones who breach that security. However, hospitals…
YouTube epilepsy videos condemned
Epilepsy campaigners have criticised the posting of footage on the YouTube website of people having seizures. The National Society for Epilepsy (NSE) said some videos – although not all – were voyeuristic, and the modern equivalent of the Victorian freak show. The website features many clips of people having seizures, and others faking seizures –…
Ca: Investigation confirms Albertans' right to ask custodians to limit disclosure of health information through Alberta Netcare
Information and Privacy Commissioner, Frank Work, has confirmed that individuals can ask that disclosure of their health information through Alberta Netcare, Alberta’s electronic health record, be limited. On conclusion of a recent investigation, it was recommended that Alberta Health and Wellness take steps to fully implement the technology that will allow custodians to limit…
Google Health: Birth of a Giant
Michael McBride writes in redOrbit: On Feb. 28th, at the 2008 annual HIMSS conference, Google announced its first product for healthcare – Google Health – a new personal health record (PHR) that will be free to use and available just about anywhere in the United States. To say that the news was received positively does…
Local lawn scattered with medical records
Bisi Onile-Ere reports for ABC12: There are concerns about the potential for identity theft in one Mid-Michigan community. The private financial and medical information of dozens of people fill boxes that sit in the front yard of a Swartz Creek home. That home once belonged to a chiropractor and sits on the 3200 hundred block…