Posted by hippocrates on Trusted.MD: A few weeks ago I posted some commentary on the battle of Google vs. Microsoft in PHR arena. My thinking was that the motivation to use such tools could prove to be a bigger obstacle than privacy. Looking at recent PHR coverage I would opine that privacy still might end…
Category: Health Data
Search Engines Using Your Personal Health Information: Creepy or Cutting Edge?
Vince Kuraitis writes on e-CareManagement Blog: When using a search engine, should results be customized based on your personal health information (PHI)? Should your search engine of choice take into account your previous history of medical searches, or even provide results tailored from data about your personal medical history? Two companies — Aetna and Microsoft…
Keep an eye on your medical ID
Michelle Andrews of U.S. News and World Report writes: If identity thieves were to disregard your financial accounts and instead target your medical information, your first thought might well be, “Take my medical identity. Please.” What nut would want your high cholesterol, trick knee and family history of Alzheimer’s? The answer is simple: One without…
Stolen government laptop held patient data
Ellen Nakashima and Rick Weiss write in the Washington Post: A government laptop computer containing sensitive medical information on 2,500 patients enrolled in a National Institutes of Health study was stolen in February, potentially exposing seven years’ worth of clinical trial data, including names, medical diagnoses and details of the patients’ heart scans. The information…
Hospitals slow to adopt e-records
Bill Toland writes in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: […] American hospitals and doctors have been slow to wholly adopt digital record-keeping and transmitting technology. They spend billions of dollars on the latest MRI machines and CT scanners, and plenty more on billing, scheduling, payroll and so on. Hospitals, obviously, are generally teeming with computers. Why, then,…
Employer Consortium Pushes PHRs
Seen at Health Data Management: A consortium of eight large employers, including Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., is slowly moving forward with plans to provide their employees with personal health records. The Dossia employer consortium, based in Portland, Ore., is testing aspects of the infrastructure, linking data from insurers, pharmacies and other sources to a central repository,…