Category: Health Data

Dave Hansen of AMNews reports: Medicare has started a yearlong pilot project in South Carolina testing online personal health records as a way to enable beneficiaries to get more involved in their care and better manage their conditions. Patients control their records and decide who has access to them — from doctors to family members….

Christopher Sleight and Hayley Rothwell of BBC in Scotland report: Confidential patient information has been left lying in an abandoned hospital in Lanarkshire, BBC Scotland can reveal. X-rays marked with patients’ names, photographs and other paperwork were found scattered at Law Hospital in Carluke, which closed in 2001. The discovery comes weeks after it emerged…

Andrew Noyes of Congress Daily reports: House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders hope to vote on legislation before the August recess that would create a national system of electronic medical records, Energy and Commerce ranking member Joe Barton said today. He noted members working on changes to the bill, which passed a key subcommittee last…

Dan Rozek reports: Jonah Greenthal said he hacked into the computer system at New Trier High School to check his class rank, but the 18-year-old senior found much more than that. Greenthal managed to tap into confidential school data that included teacher salaries, medical records and grade histories for students who had graduated as long…

Medical records are supposed to be private. But one watchdog group said they found 50 pages of sensitive patient information out in the open in a trash bin outside a methadone clinic — the Middle Tennessee Treatment Center. Full story – NewsChannel5.com

A LAPTOP containing names and dental images of over 100 patients was stolen from the home of a Northern Health and Social Care Trust staff member, the MAIL has learned. […] “Our investigations assure us that although the missing files contain the names and dental photographs of 128 patients, there are no further details that…