Karen Kissane reports: …. the federal government will introduce shared electronic health records. If the roll-out goes to plan, by July 1, 2012, any patient will be able to ask their doctor to create one. They will be uploaded on the web to be accessed – with patient permission – by any of the nation’s…
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Another "balancing" argument about privacy and EHRs
Some days I feel like a health care sector Paula Revere spreading the warning, “the breaches are coming, the breaches are coming!” I just saw this commentary on HealthNewsDigest.com by Eric Demers, the senior vice president of health and life science at MEDecision: …. We shouldn’t allow overreactions to misperceived weaknesses in EHR security to…
VA beefs up data security of network devices
Mary Mosquera reports: By the end of September, information security managers at the Department of Veterans Affairs will have the electronic tools in place that will let them see how vulnerable the one million computers and other devices connected to the VA network are.For the last six months, VA has been deploying multiple software applications…
Google Health has changed a bit
Google Health has undergone some tweaks. You can read about how Google Health corresponds to — or doesn’t correspond to — HIPAA protections here. Kudos to them for providing a comparison chart. Google Health Privacy Policy can be found here.
Could Chat Transcripts Be Security Minefields?
I’ve linked to a number of Evan Schuman’s wonderful articles from databreaches.net, but this article is particularly relevant to this site. Evan writes: When Rite-Aid and Walgreens both announced pharmacist chat programs last month, they were the latest chains to try and use chat to get closer to their customers. But, ironically, the preservation of chat…
In: National ID card project subject to court order
Meanwhile, back in the world of future breaches, a court seemingly decides that it’s okay to go ahead and purchase technology to produce national ID cards that might produce substandard and insecure cards: The High Court on Tuesday held that implementation of a multipurpose national identity card scheme will be subject to the final outcome…