Mitch Wagner of InformationWeek reports on a new social networking site: Mental Health Social launched a new social network designed to let people with mental health conditions or those interested in those conditions to connect in a comfortable online environment. MentalHealthSocial.com is designed to allow people to share experiences anonymously, reach out to others with…
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Patient Privacy Rights grades PHRs
Patient Privacy Rights has issued a privacy-oriented report card on some of the available PHRs (personal health records). For those who prefer to cut to the bottom line, the grades issued were as follows: CapMed- icePHR: C Google Health D/F [Platform Grade: D, Partners Grade: F] Microsoft HealthVault B/F [Platform Grade: B, Partners Grade: F]…
Welcome Computerworld readers
As Robert McMillan of IDG News Service kindly pointed out, this site initially reported the lawsuit against Radiant Systems and its distributor, Computer World Inc., over a week ago. If you’re new to this site, you can find that story here. In a subsequent post, I mentioned some other restaurants that had been hacked while…
Searchable database of patient records to go commercial
Pamela Lewis Dolan reports: The Cleveland Clinic is backing a startup company that has built a search engine for electronic databases that would allow research using de-identified patient data. A newly formed company called Explorys is commercializing the patient database search system Cleveland Clinic developed. According to Stephen McHale, chief executive officer and co-founder of…
States, Consumer Advocates Challenge Rx Data Mining
Andrew Zajac reports: When your doctors writes you a prescription, that’s just between you, your doctor, and maybe your health insurance company–right? Wrong. As things stand now, the pharmaceutical companies that make those prescription drugs are also looking over the doctor’s shoulder, keeping track of how many prescriptions for whose drugs the individual physician is…
AU: NSW Health to review privacy policy for insurers' lawyers
Joel Gibson reports: The NSW Health department is likely to review its privacy policies after a number of complaints about solicitors for insurers seeking irrelevant medical records from claimants, a source familiar with the department’s privacy policy said. A review of the department’s privacy manual will address the issue amid fears that the forms can…