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Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Dissent

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American site visitors! News updates will resume tonight. For now, I’ve got to get cooking. I wish you all a great day filled with family and friends and laughter.

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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Privacy Breach Prompts Warning to Patients

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Dissent

Deanna Garcia reports: UPMC is alerting nearly 1,300 people treated at various UPMC locations over the past year that their records were viewed inappropriately. The now former employee at UPMC McKeesport was not involved in the care of the patients and therefore should not have been looking at their information. “Another employee called it to…

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AU: Medical examinations used to access your private information

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Dissent

Leanne Nicholson reports: Private information of thousands of Australian jobseekers harvested through medical examinations and stored for profit has raised legal and applicant concerns about the protection and use of personal data. Australia’s largest publicly-listed health and risk management provider, Konekt, has collected the personal data of jobseekers since 2007 through medical examinations on behalf…

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Researchers to Use EMRs to Discover New Disease Associations

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Dissent

I have no idea about the privacy and security controls in place, but this is fascinating stuff and demonstrates some of the good that can come out of Big Data.

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UK: Your medical records – now on sale

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Dissent

Ross Anderson writes: Your medical records are now officially on sale. American drug companies now learn that MedRed BT Health Cloud will provide public access to 50 million de-identified patient records from UK. David Cameron announced in 2011 that every NHS patient would be a research patient, with their records opened up to private healthcare firms. He promised…

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Whose data is it anyway?

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Dissent

John Moore and Rob Tholemeier write: A common and somewhat unique aspect to EHR vendor contracts is that the EHR vendor lays claim to the data entered into their system. Rob and I have worked in many industries as analysts. Nowhere, in our collective experience, have we seen such a thing. Manufacturers, retailers, financial institutions, etc. would…

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