Author: Dissent

Richard Pizzi of Healthcare IT News reports: Bright Health Physicians of PIH, a multi-site network of primary care and specialty physicians, plans to implement an administrative software package that will allow patients access to health management tools like a personal health record. Bright Health has inked a deal with HealthTrio LLC, a provider of software…

Bury Times Reporter writes: Thousands of patients in the borough can now access their health records online. They are among some of the first in the country to source health information via an online personal organiser known as HealthSpace. Available since 2003, the service (www.healthspace.nhs.uk) gives patients the opportunity to store personal health information including…

Bernie Monegain of Healthcare IT News reports: The Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange, which includes 24 hospitals in northern Louisiana, is going live today on an integrated open systems platform that will enable teleconsultation among the hospitals. […] The integrated platform employs a federated model that offers clinicians secure access to a portal-based view of…

Ellen Nakashima and Rick Weiss write in The Washington Post: Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.), the ranking minority member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, revealed yesterday that he is among the approximately 3,000 heart patients whose medical information was potentially exposed to public scrutiny when an unencrypted government laptop was stolen in February from…

Charles Ornstein reports in the Los Angeles Times: Months before UCLA Medical Center caught its staffers snooping in the medical records of pop star Britney Spears, ’70s TV icon Farrah Fawcett learned that a hospital employee had surreptitiously gone through records of her cancer treatments there, documents and interviews show. Fawcett’s lawyers said they are…

Jill Callahan Dennis of the American Health Information Management Association has a letter to the editor of the New York Times: “Safeguarding Private Medical Data” (editorial, March 26) makes an important point about the need for identifiable patient information to be better protected from security and confidentiality breaches. Not all organizations are subject to privacy…