Register now for the 4th International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy on June 4-5, 2014, in DC. The annual Health Privacy Summit is a unique, inclusive event, which offers the only forum in the world for high-level, thoughtful discussions about the most urgent national and international health privacy issues and solutions. Every year, we aim…
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Giant patient records database 'should be delayed'
Nick Triggle reports: The roll-out of a new NHS data-sharing scheme involving medical records should be delayed as patients have been left “in the dark”, a patient watchdog says. A giant database, Care.data, is being set up with anonymised records to help aid medical research and the monitoring of performance. But Healthwatch England said the…
FDNY might sell your personal health info? Not so fast….
Gary Buiso and Susan Edelman report that a revised privacy policy by the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) has got some people concerned. Find yourself lying in a city ambulance and your personal health information could be sold to the highest bidder. The FDNY has issued a murky patient-privacy notice that says it may use…
Privacy and Security Considerations of Telehealth
by Joseph Lorenzo Hall February 4, 2014 Telehealth – using telecommunication technologies to prevent illness and promote health – has incredible potential benefits. Telehealth can help reach underserved or remote populations, and it can also help reduce costs in general, while providing more real-time interaction between medical providers and patients. The benefits – and effectiveness – are becoming increasingly…
VA: Beach man questions security of ACA website
Janet Roach of WVEC reports: Rich Guillory of Virginia Beach is questioning the security of the Affordable Care Act website, HealthCare.gov. Guillory signed up for a plan through the website on the marketplace. Just one day later, he started getting phone calls from two Virginia Beach numbers. The callers were asking if he needed help finding…
Paying out of Pocket to Protect Health Privacy: A New but Complicated HIPAA Option; A Report on the HIPAA Right to Restrict Disclosure
The report Paying out of Pocket to Protect Health Privacy: A New but Complicated HIPAA Option; A Report on the HIPAA Right to Restrict Disclosure was published January 30, 2014. Report authors: Bob Gellman and Pam Dixon Access the full nreport on World Privacy Forum.