The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) has apologised to a Westport woman for requesting her medical files without her consent. But Jessica Adamson, 66, is still waiting for the West Coast District Health Board (WCDHB) to explain why it gave her files to ACC without asking or telling her. Mrs Adamson is fighting ACC for compensation…
Category: Health Data
Credit Cards Stolen From Visitors, Patients At Local Hospitals
Manassas police are warning citizens about credit cards thefts from visitors and patients at local hospitals. In these incidents, thieves hang around hospital lobby waiting areas and seek out elderly visitors and patients to rob, police said. […] Police said similar incidents happened during summer and fall of 2007. They said Potomac Hospital in Prince…
TX: Drug Treatment Records Found in the Trash
The News 4 Trouble Shooters found a gold mine at a local drug treatment center. Hundreds of private, personal records thrown out with the trash. Information that, by law, must be protected. A tip led the Trouble Shooters to the dumpster behind Treatment Associates, located at 701 San Pedro, near downtown. We pulled out more…
Pointer: Does the DNS security hole worry the EHR and PHR worlds?
Over on HealthBlawg, David Harlow has a thoughtful commentary on the revelations of a huge DNS security hole for the adoption of EHR and PHR. An excerpt: Providers that have not adopted EHR systems to date could use this sort of news as an additional excuse to try to delay the inevitable. A study published…
UK: Colchester manager sacked over lost laptop
Joe Fernandez reports on eHealth Insider: A senior hospital manager, who lost a laptop containing the unencrypted records of more than 20,000 patients while he was on holiday, has been dismissed from his position. The manager from Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust, lost the laptop in Edinburgh in June, and was initially suspended while…
CMS will test use of Medicare data in commercial PHRs
Nancy Ferris reports in Government Health IT: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is undertaking a third pilot program to test the use of online personal health records by Medicare beneficiaries. In the new pilot, CMS will populate commercial PHRs with Medicare claims data. The agency plans to select as many as four commercial…