Diana Manos of Health IT News writes: Members of a federal healthcare IT advisory panel workgroup considered recommendations Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how best to push personal health records. CDC is one of the few federal agencies making headway in using the Internet in all its various forms to…
Category: Health Data
Ending Secrecy: Physician Makes Case for Full Disclosure of Health Records
Ted Eytan, M.D., M.P.H., writes about the benefits of providing full disclosure of health records to the patient: My first exposure to the “for doctors’ eyes only” concept of the medical record occurred in high school, when I was working in a community hospital, and a patient waiting for a diagnostic exam began thumbing through…
MN: Genetic testing
Michael Marchio writes on the Minnesota Public Radio site: The Senate had a pretty light day today, approving a few bills and then recessing to take up the bovine tuberculosis bill, but the House has a whopper of a debate on genetic testing of newborn babies. SF3138, sponsored by Rep. Paul Thissen (DFL-Minneapolis) […] Rep….
Ph: VSMMC to unveil probe results, name doctors involved today
VICENTE Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) officials will announce today results of their investigation on the operation to remove a spray canister from a man’s rectum. The operation last Jan. 3 sparked controversy when a video clip, showing doctors and nurses laughing and giggling, was posted on YouTube, a video-sharing website. Full story – Sun…
UK: Patient data stolen from Epsom hospital
Rebecca Younger reports in the Surrey Advertiser: A LAPTOP containing the personal details of patients at hospitals across Surrey has been stolen from Epsom Hospital. The names, addresses and dates of birth of 180 patients who attend outreach clinics at hospitals across the county were stored on the computer, which was stolen from an office…
Cutting to chase of Personal Health Record debate
Dana Blankenhorn blogs on ZDnet: The New England Journal of Medicine has entered the debate over Personal Health Records (PHRs) with four articles, all with different perspectives, all with the full text behind their registration firewall. So let’s cut to the chase. I’ve seen this play out in a host of industries over the years – news,…