Perhaps you saw the news headlines this week about the “Invisible Bracelet.” Lauran Neergaard of Associated Press reports: Emergency health alerts for the Facebook generation? The nation’s ambulance crews are pushing a virtual medical ID system to rapidly learn a patient’s health history during a crisis — and which can immediately text-message loved ones that…
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Doctor alleges second person also changed patients' records in WDH privacy breach
Adam D. Krause remains all over this story: A doctor impacted by the privacy breach at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital says a second employee improperly accessed and changed patients’ records but never lost her job. “There was another woman that’s still working at the hospital,” said Dr. Cheryl Moore, whose Piscataqua Pathology Associates group was contracted to…
Spyware snags Akron Children's Hospital patient and employee info
The Associated Press reports that Scott Graham of Ohio faces prison time after pleading guilty in federal court to felony charges of intercepting electronic communications by using spyware to spy on a woman’s computer activities. By spying on her, he also accidentally retrieved confidential information from the computer system at Akron Children’s Hospital, where she…
AU: New privacy guidelines for health practitioners on disclosing genetic information
JOINT MEDIA RELEASE of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and the National Health and Medical Research Council: The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), in cooperation with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC), today released new guidelines to assist health practitioners in making decisions about disclosing genetic information to their patient’s genetic…
OK judge extends block on controversial abortion law
The Associated Press reports that District Judge Daniel Owens has extended a temporary restraining order that blocks enforcement of a controversial abortion law, House Bill 1595. The law is being challenged on grounds that it violates the state constitution. Read more: http://www.kansas.com/news/state/story/1105028.html
Government Grapples With EMR Security, Privacy
Mitch Wagner reports: While electronic medical records promise massive opportunities for health benefits, the privacy and security risks are equally enormous. The Obama administration has set an ambitious goal — to get electronic medical records on file for every American by 2014. The administration is offering powerful incentives: $20 billion for EMRs included in the…