Author: Dissent

Nancy Ferris reports on Government Health IT: The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) has directed its health plans, which cover more than 1.2 million people, to participate in the statewide health information exchange that is under development. The decision is a shot in the arm for the California Regional Health Information Organization (CalRHIO), which…

Jim Reiner’s presentation at the 15th National HIPAA Summit is now available online.

Hong Kong – Medical data on almost 700 Hong Kong children and teenagers with social and developmental problems have been lost, the territory’s government admitted Friday. The records were held on a memory card which was stolen from an unlocked room at a Child Assessment Centre in the city’s Tuen Mun district, the government’s Department…

P.J. Reilly reports in the Intelligencer Journal: A medical practice in East Hempfield Township is contacting nearly 12,000 of its patients to notify them that a computer was stolen from the office April 17. The computer contained the names, addresses, telephone numbers and Social Security numbers of many of the patients who visited the office…

Kris Wernowsky reports in the Pensacola News Journal: A former Santa Rosa Medical Center nurse took the stand Thursday and admitted that he stole a patient’s identity and used it to get thousands of dollars to purchase vehicles. “It’s wrong, what I did,” Gary Lamar Holt said during his testimony. “I didn’t mean to hurt…

Scott Bauer reports: The security of a database containing sensitive information about 240,000 senior citizens and disabled people in Wisconsin was never breached or at risk, the chief executive of the company that controls the data said Thursday. A top official with the state Department of Health and Family Services also sought to assure the…