Regular readers may have noticed that there have been no updates since yesterday. That’s when I got an emergency call that my elderly mom had been rushed to the hospital. I will be mostly offline for the next few days or week. Eventually, I’ll get my blogs updated and email responded to. Im the meantime,…
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Maintenance Note
Regular readers may have noticed that there have been no updates since yesterday. That’s when I got an emergency call that my elderly mom had been rushed to the hospital. I will be mostly offline for the next few days or week. Eventually, I’ll get my blogs updated and email responded to. Im the meantime,…
Videos from Health Privacy Summit Now Available
Organizers of the June 13th, D.C. Health Privacy Summit, “Getting IT Right: Protecting Patient Privacy in a Wired World” [http://www.healthprivacysummit.org], today announced the release of all videos from the Summit. Videos include all of the morning panel sessions, the keynote speakers, as well as the final session: “”Looking Forward – The 2012 Health Privacy Agenda” [http://www.healthprivacysummit.org/videos/session-5-looking-ahead-2012-health-privacy-agenda].”…
Editorial: Missing records case reveals vulnerabilities
From an editorial in the Winston-Salem Journal: The mysterious case of the missing medical records apparently has been solved, though we think it took Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center too long — six weeks — to disclose its findings. And since this most recent case is the second time in less than two years that medical records…
Peeking at medical records an issue for health centers
Barbara Cotter reports: A Colorado Springs city health employee recently accused of inappropriately accessing about 2,500 Memorial Health System patient records claimed that “it’s pretty damn common” for medical professionals to peek at files for unwarranted reasons. “Common” might be overstating things, but statistics suggest it happens more often than patients might realize. Since 2008,…
Fired worker sues state over medical privacy
Patrick Yeagle reports: A dispute over a computer program at a state agency in Springfield has escalated into a federal court case involving doctor-patient confidentiality, more than $771,000 in damages sought and even a fake bomb threat. Michael Sanders, 46, of Springfield, a former data processing technician with the Illinois Department of Central Management Services…